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  2. Let America be America Again - Wikipedia

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    "Let America Be America Again" is a poem written in 1935 by American poet Langston Hughes.It was originally published in the July 1936 issue of Esquire Magazine.The poem was republished in the 1937 issue of Kansas Magazine and was revised and included in a small collection of Langston Hughes poems entitled A New Song, published by the International Workers Order in 1938.

  3. Langston Hughes - Wikipedia

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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 art form called jazz poetry, Hughes is best known as a leader of the Harlem Renaissance.

  4. I, Too - Wikipedia

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    It was first published in Hughes' first volume of poetry, The Weary Blues in 1926. This poem, along with other works by Hughes, helped define the Harlem Renaissance , a period in the early 1920s and '30s of newfound cultural identity for blacks in America who had discovered the power of literature, art, music, and poetry as a means of personal ...

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  6. Langston Hughes wrote a poem about Black voters in ... - AOL

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    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 ...

  7. Category:Poetry by Langston Hughes - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Poetry by Langston Hughes" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total. ... Let America be America Again; M. Mississippi–1955;

  8. Not Without Laughter - Wikipedia

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    Hughes said that Not Without Laughter is semi-autobiographical, and that a good portion of the characters and setting included in the novel are based on his memories of growing up in Lawrence, Kansas: "I wanted to write about a typical Negro family in the Middle West, about people like those I had known in Kansas.

  9. Note on Commercial Theatre - Wikipedia

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    Hughes was a huge proponent of creating a separate black identity and art, hence the extreme antipathy within "Note on Commercial Theatre" to black culture being absorbed by whites. This is reflected in his use of an experimental form for his poem; there is a lack of rhyme scheme and no discernible rhythm to the lines.