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African-American History
Langston Hughes
A poet, novelist, essayist and playwright, fluent in both Spanish and French,
Hughes is best remembered as a radical democrat. Born in 1902 in Joplin,
Missouri, Hughes attended Columbia University in New York, having already
launched his literary career with his poem, The Negro Speaks of Rivers.
Hughes had committed himself to writing mainly about African Americans
and often spoke of blacks being free from the need of white approval. His
love for music led Hughes to write about jazz and blues in his first two
books, The Weary Blues (1926) and Fine Clothes to the Jew (1927).
To his credit, Hughes also wrote a very successful history of the NAACP.
Hughes' last book of verse, The Panther and the Lash, about the Civil Rights
Movement, was published posthumously in 1967, the year he died.
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