Langston Hughes teaches the children in his neighborhood a tender lesson with maintaining a garden that used to be tramples earth they played on. Eat child picked a plant and took partial responsibility for watering and weeding the garden.
The First Book of Negroes was a children's book written by Langston Hughes. In times where money was tight Hughes turned to writing children's books for money. The main character in this book is Terry, who lives in Harlem and goes to a mixed school and can go about the city as he pleases. However, his grandmother lives in the south, and, when he goes to visit, he must endure the segregation that the south implements and hears stories of the past from his grandmother.