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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. 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 .

  4. Langston Hughes Medal - Wikipedia

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    The Langston Hughes Medal is awarded to highly distinguished writers from throughout the African diaspora for their impressive works of poetry, fiction, drama, autobiography and critical essays that help to celebrate the memory and tradition of Langston Hughes. Each year, the Langston Hughes Festival’s Advisory Committee and board reviews the ...

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

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    Prior to 1939, the record number of Black votes cast in a Miami city primary was 150. The day after the Klan parade, more than 1,400 Black voters cast their ballots. | Opinion

  6. The Negro Speaks of Rivers - Wikipedia

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    Langston Hughes was born in 1902, in Missouri. He attended high school in Cleveland, Ohio, where he first began writing. [1] He graduated from Central High School in 1917. [2] Several years after graduating high school, Hughes decided to travel to Mexico City and live with his father, whom he did not know well. He left in 1920.

  7. 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 ...

  8. 10 of Obama's greatest accomplishments - AOL

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    Ten of Obama's greatest accomplishments. When Barack Obama ran for president in 2008, his campaign slogan was "Change we can believe in." He ran on the platform that called for the country to come ...

  9. 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. But mine was not a typical ...