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Publication date. June 1921. Langston Hughes in 1919 or 1920. " The Negro Speaks of Rivers " is a poem by American writer Langston Hughes. Hughes wrote the poem when he was 17 years old and was crossing the Mississippi River on the way to visit his father in Mexico. The poem was first published the following year in The Crisis magazine, in June ...
Mississippi–1955. " Mississippi–1955 " or " Mississippi " is a poem written by Langston Hughes in response to the 1955 murder of Emmett Till. Hughes was the first major African American writer to pen a response to the killing, and his poem was widely republished in the weeks that followed. It was initially dedicated to Emmett Till, but did ...
The literature of Mississippi, United States, includes fiction, poetry, and nonfiction. Mississippi has a literary tradition that arose from a diverse mix of cultures and races. [1] Traditional themes from this genre of literature lean towards the past, conflict and change, and southern history in general; however, in the modern era, work have ...
Mississippi Quarterly — A refereed, scholarly journal dedicated to the life and culture of the American South, past and present. The Oxford American — A quarterly journal of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, photography, and music from and about the South. The Southern Review — The famous literary journal focusing on southern literature.
Emmett Till. Emmett Louis Till (July 25, 1941 – August 28, 1955) was an African American teenager who was abducted and lynched in Mississippi in 1955 after being accused of offending a white woman, Carolyn Bryant, in her family's grocery store. The brutality of his murder and the acquittal of his killers drew attention to the long history of ...
Life on the Mississippi is a memoir by Mark Twain of his days as a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi River before the American Civil War published in 1883. It is also a travel book , recounting his trips on the Mississippi River, from St. Louis to New Orleans and then from New Orleans to Saint Paul , many years after the war.
Known for. If-by-whiskey speech. Noah S. " Soggy " Sweat Jr. (October 2, 1922 – February 23, 1996) was an American judge, law professor, and state representative in Mississippi, notable for his 1952 speech on the floor of the Mississippi state legislature concerning whiskey. Reportedly the speech took Sweat two and a half months to write. [1]
2012-2014. Heinz Award in Arts and Humanities. 2017. Spouse. Brett Gadsden. Natasha Trethewey (born April 26, 1966) is an American poet who served as United States Poet Laureate from 2012 to 2014. [1] She won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry for her 2006 collection Native Guard, [2] and is a former Poet Laureate of Mississippi. [3]