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Ayer Company Publishers/IDA: excerpt from “The Party” from Lyrics of Lowly Life by Paul Laurence Dunbar. Copyright 1898. Reprinted by permission of Ayer Company Publishers/IDA.
Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., a division of Random House: excerpt from “The Weary Blues” from Collected Poems by Langston Hughes. Copyright (c) 1994 by the Estate of Langston Hughes.
Moorland Spingarn Research Center, Howard University: excerpts from Lelia Walker Wilson letter to L’Intransigence. Reprinted by permission of Moorland Research Center, Howard University.
Harold Ober Associates, Inc.: excerpt from “To A’Lelia” by Langston Hughes. Reprinted by permission of Harold Ober Associates, Inc.
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, LLC.: excerpts from “Parties” from The Big Seaby Langston Hughes. Copyright 1940 by Langston Hughes. Copyright renewed 1968 by Arna Bontemps and George Houston Bass. Reprinted by permission of Hill and Wang, a division of Farrar, Straus & Giroux, LLC.
Pat Thompson/Thompson and Thompson: excerpt from “From the Dark Tower” from Copper Sun by Countee Cullen. Copyright 1927 by Harper & Bros., New York. Renewed: 1954 Ida M. Cullen.