"Mother to Son"
             by Langston Hughes

       Well son, I'll tell you:
       Life for me ain't been no crystal stair.
       It's had tacks in it,
       And splinters,
       And boards torn up,
       And places with no carpet on the floor--
       Bare.
       But all the time
       I's been a-climbin' on,
      And reachin' landin's,
      And turnin' corners,
      And sometimes goin' in the dark
      Where there ain't been no light,
      So, boy, don't you turn back.
      Don't you set down on the steps
      Cause you finds it kinder hard.
      Don't you fall now--
      For I'se still goin', honey,
      I's still climbin',
      And life for me ain't been no crystal stair.
 

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Biographies on the following Blacks are available in the
South Norwalk Branch Library’s Children’s Department:

Muhammad Ali
Marion Anderson
Louis Armstrong
Arthur Ashe
Benjamin Banneker
Mary McCleod Bethune
Guion Bluford
Barry Bonds
Ruby Bridges
Gwendolyn Brooks
Liza N. Burby
George Washington Carver
Frederick Douglass
Charles Drew
W.E.B. DuBois
Paul Laurence Dunbar
Katherine Dunham
Marion Wright Edelman
Duke Ellington
Ralph Ellison
James Farmer
Ella Fitzgerald
Charlotte Forten
Zina Garrison
Marcus Garvey
Whoopi Goldberg
Ken Griffin, Jr.
Florence Joyner Griffith
Fannie Lou Hamer
Jimi Hendrix
Grant Hill
Chester Himes