We Have Tomorrow
Arna Bontemps
Hardcover
(Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, June 1, 1945)
Written for young adults, this book contains twelve biographies of living African-American men and women, in the first half of the 20th century, who have struggled to find a measure of satisfying success. Langston Hughes' poem "Youth" is the Introduction: We have tomorrow, Bright before us Like a flame...Yesterday, A night-gone thing, A sun-down name...And dawn-today, Broad arch above the road we came...We march !