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Charles was the grandfather of renowned poet Langston Hughes. Early life and education. Langston was born free in 1817 in Louisa County, ...
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.
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]
John Mercer Langston (December 14, 1829 – November 15, 1897) was an American abolitionist, attorney, educator, activist, diplomat, and politician.He was the founding dean of the law school at Howard University and helped create the department.
L'Amour heard tales of the Great American Frontier from his uncles and his grandfather, who lived through the Civil and Indian wars. ... It wasn't until Langston Hughes introduced Ellison to ...
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.
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.
Hughes doesn’t have any memories of his grandfather, Fletcher. But thinking back to the motivation behind the farm’s founding, he imagines his grandfather growing tired of sharecropping, and ...