(HUGHES LANGSTON) The Negro Speaks of Rivers

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(HUGHES, LANGSTON.) The Negro Speaks of Rivers. Small poetry broadside, with a woodcut design by Aaron Douglas, Signed and dated by Hughes in 1941; matted with a photographic copy print portrait of Hughes, and a small brass plaque with his name; framed. [New York], 1941

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"The Negro Speaks of Rivers" was the first published poem of Langston Hughes, appearing in 1922 in "The Brownie's Book," which was edited by W. E. B. Du Bois.