2010.54.18330

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Dream Boogie
Dream Boogie
Late 20th Early 21st Century
10.75 in HIGH x 23.625 in WIDE
(27.3 cm HIGH x 60.01 cm WIDE)
All Of Us Or None Archive. Gift of the Rossman Family.
2010.54.18330

Printed at the bottom right: "reprinted from Montage of a Dream Deferred, Selected Poems (Vintage). / (c) Langston Hughes, renewed 1979 by George Houston Bass".





POster printed on white paper. Poster text in three columns: "good morning/ daddy! / ain''t you heard / the boogie-woogie rumble / of a dream deferred? / listen closely: / you''ll hear theur feet / beating out and beating out a - / you think / it''s a happy beat? // listen to it closely: / ain''t you heard / something underneath / like a- / what did I say? // sure, / I''m happy! / take it away! / hey, pop! / re-bop! / mop! / y-e-a-h!" in black. At the bottom is "Dream Doogie" in red. At the bottom left is the London Underground symbol and "poems on the underground" in gray with poster purchaing information in black. At the bottom right is "Langston Hughes (1902-97)" in black.
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