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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.
He drew inspiration from his early life for his writings which led him to excel in school, and later saved his life. [3] When he was 17 years old, Hughes went to his father's estate in Mexico. Hughes was able to eventually enroll in college, but decided to drop out to work for different kinds of shipping vessels that sailed around the world.
Mary Sampson Patterson Leary Langston (aunt) Rose Graham Leary Love (December 30, 1898 – June 2, 1969) was an American educator and writer. She wrote poems and stories for children, edited a collection of folklore for children, and wrote a memoir of growing up in Brooklyn , a now-lost Black neighborhood of Charlotte, North Carolina .
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]
Giovanni was the recipient of numerous literary and social justice awards, including several NAACP Image Awards, the Langston Hughes Medal, and more than 20 honorary degrees from colleges and ...
In 1915, Mary Leary Langston died, leaving Langston to be raised briefly by his mother and stepfather, and then by Mary's friends, the Reeds. [20] After her death, Hughes recalled [1] Through my grandmother's stories always life moved, moved heroically toward an end. Nobody ever cried in my grandmother's stories. They worked, or schemed, or fought.
As you likely know by now, Travis Kelce will be vying for his fourth Super Bowl win with the Kansas City Chiefs on February 9. You’re probably also aware that he’s dating 14-time Grammy winner ...
A federal bankruptcy judge on Thursday stopped an effort by the parents of a boy killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting to begin collecting on some of the $50 million they won in a ...