The lines from ' "America" are reprinted from Harlem Shadows, by Claude McKay.
Copyright, 1922, by Harcourt, Brace & Company, Inc.

"Mother to Son"is reprinted from The Dream Keeper, by Langston Hughes. Copy-
right, 1932, by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.

"As I Grow Older"and "Cross"are from The Weary Blues, by Langston Hughes.
Copyright, 1927, by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.

The lines from "The White Man's Burden"are reprinted from The Five Nations.
Copyright, 1903, 1931, by Rudyard Kipling. Reprinted by permission of A. P.
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Graw-Hill Book Co., Inc.

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1933, by the University of North Carolina Press.

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reprinted by permission of Simon and Schuster, Inc.

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by Simon and Schuster, Inc.

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is copyrighted, 1938, by Simon and Schuster, Inc.

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