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  2. 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.

  3. Category:Works by Langston Hughes - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Works by Langston Hughes" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B.

  4. The Ways of White Folks - Wikipedia

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    The work comments on the African primitivist aesthetic, qualifying previous historical focuses of the lens, while still advocating for its relevance. [8] VII. “The Blues I’m Playing” is the seventh story within the collection. The work details the patronage relationship between Osceola Jones, a young Black pianist, and her patron, Mrs ...

  5. Joplin-born Langston Hughes is a Missouri treasure. These 7 ...

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    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 ...

  6. The Negro Speaks of Rivers - Wikipedia

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    [11]: 221 Hughes himself had not traveled widely when he wrote the poem. [3] The scholar W. Jason Miller considers the poem was an anti-lynching work, noting that Hughes lived during an era where he would have been impacted by lynchings, particularly after the Red Summer of 1919, when numerous blacks were attacked and killed by whites. Miller ...

  7. The Big Sea - Wikipedia

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    The Big Sea (1940) is an autobiographical work by Langston Hughes.In it, he tells his experience of being a writer of color in Paris, France, and his experiences living in New York, where he faced injustices surrounding systematic racism.

  8. 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 ...

  9. 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.

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