Langston Hughes #1153

Caption from poster__     The Kids in School with Me When I studied my A-B-C's And learned arithmetic, I also learned in public school What makes America tick: The kid in front And the kid behind And the kid across the aisle, The Italian kid And the Polish kid And the girl with the Irish smile, The colored kid And the Spanish kid And the Russian kid my size, The Jewish kid And the Grecian kid And the girl with the Chinese eyes-- We were a regular Noah's ark, Every race beneath the sun, But our motto for graduation was: One for All and All for One! The kid in front And the kid behind And the kid across from me-- Just American kids together The kids in school with me.   Langston Hughes -- born February 1, 1902, in Joplin, Missouri -- is usually considered the dean of American Negro poets. His parents divorced when he was a child, and his father moved to Mexico. he was raised by his grandmother until he was thirteen, when he moved to Lincoln, Illinois, to live with his mother and h