Children's Defense Fund | The Langston Hughes Library

A School For...Life, Spiritual Renewal, Character and Servant Leadership Development, Intergenerational Mentoring, Interracial and Interdisciplinary Communication and Community-Building.

A Place... where generations can come and reconnect and teach and nurture and be nurtured and prepare ourselves for saving our children and families.

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To You

To Sit and dream, to sit and read.
To sit and learn about the world.
Outside our world of here and now—
Our problem world—
To dream of vast horizons of the soul
through dreams made whole
Unfettered free—Help me!
All you who are dreamers, too.
Help me to make our world anew.
I reach out my hands to you.

—LANGSTON HUGHES

Heritage
Literature	History

	Spiritual Renewal
Leadership	Communication

Dream
Read	Learn

Langston Hughes Library

The library and ground-level bookstore provides the best in Black heritage, history, literature, spirituality, and children's books, important fiction and non-fiction books by Black authors, and important materials on the Civil Rights and Children's Movements, including the works of The Children's Defense Fund (CDF) and Black Community Crusade for Children (BCCC).