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"Mother to Son" is a 1922 poem by American writer and activist Langston Hughes. The poem follows a mother speaking to her son about her life, which she says "ain't been no crystal stair". She first describes the struggles she has faced and then urges him to continue moving forward.
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Carolina (Carrie) Mercer Langston was the daughter of Charles Langston and Mary Leary (one of the first black women to attend Oberlin College). [1] [2]Carrie Langston's father, Charles Henry Langston, was the son of a prosperous Virginia planter and an enslaved woman of American Indian and African descent. [1]
Langston Hughes didn't spend much of his childhood in Missouri, but the poet's presence lingers. Hughes, one of our truest American compasses, entered the world on the first day of February 1901 ...
James Mercer Langston Hughes (February 1, 1901 [1] – May 22, 1967) was an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist from Joplin, Missouri.One of the earliest innovators of the literary form called jazz poetry, Hughes is best known as a leader of the Harlem Renaissance.
I learned that Langston Hughes wrote a poem about Black voters in Miami while researching a story six years ago. In “The Ballad of Sam Solomon,” Hughes documents how Overtown resident Samuel B ...
Poetry for Young People: Langston Hughes is a 2006 children's poetry collection by Langston Hughes edited by David Roessel and Arnold Rampersad and illustrated by Benny Andrews, originally published by Sterling Publishing Company.
The Langston Hughes Society is a United States–based literary society concerned with the work of African American poet Langston Hughes. The society was the first national organization to be dedicated to the work of an African American writer. [ 1 ]