Langston Hughes
✓ Source-basedrisingAmerican writer and social activist (1901-1967)
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James Mercer Langston Hughes was an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist from Joplin, Missouri. An early innovator of jazz poetry, Hughes is best known as a leader of the Harlem Renaissance.
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Hughes in 1902
Hughes c. 1925
Hughes at Lincoln University, 1928![Langston Hughes at Tuskegee Institute with Jessie Fauset (left) and Zora Neale Hurston, 1927.[57][58]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4d/Langston_Hughes_at_Tuskegee_Institute_with_Jessie_Fauset_%28left%29_and_Zora_Neale_Hurston.jpg/500px-Langston_Hughes_at_Tuskegee_Institute_with_Jessie_Fauset_%28left%29_and_Zora_Neale_Hurston.jpg)
Langston Hughes at Tuskegee Institute with Jessie Fauset (left) and Zora Neale Hurston, 1927.[57][58]
The Ways of White Folks, Hughes's first short story collection
Langston Hughes, 1943. Photo by Gordon Parks
Hughes (right) with two Lincoln Brigade soldiers in Fuentes, October 1937Awards 5
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Léopold Sédar SenghorAlso in The First World Festival of Negro Arts (1966)
Aimé CésaireAlso in The First World Festival of Negro Arts (1966)
Sally BlaneAlso in Way Down South (1939)
François VilliersAlso in Rhythm of Africa (1947)
Charles S. DubinAlso in The Strolling '20s (1966)
Duke EllingtonAlso in The First World Festival of Negro Arts (1966)About this person
Country
United StatesCategory
Writers
Type
Writer / Author
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1901 to 1967 · aged 66
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