“Harlem” captures the anger ... Finish story here; 10 Langston Hughes Poems That Define the American Spirit.

If you are white and are reading this vignette, don’t take it for granted that all Harlem is a slum. It isn’t. There are big apartment houses up on the hill, Sugar Hill, and up by City College ...

Harlem, Cleveland, Madrid, and finally Paris, he got along. With stops in Russia during the 'heroic days' of the second Five Year Plan and in Spain in 1937, Langston Hughes' journey from 1930 to ...

which includes a poem by Langston Hughes, read by the poet himself. Probably his most famous poem is Harlem, and in particular the phrase “raisin in the sun.” What happens to a dream deferred?

Hughes, the Harlem Renaissance author and poet ... called before McCarthy’s committee in 1953 and 1954. Poet and author Langston Hughes speaks before the House Un-American Activities Committee ...

Several years after traveling through the South with fellow writer Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes ... After giving a poetry reading at Fisk University in Nashville, Hughes journeyed by ...

See George Hutchinson, The Harlem Renaissance in Black and White (Cambridge ... It is reprinted in Arnold Rampersad, ed., The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes (New York: Vintage Classics, 1995), 32.

“Every place in Lawrence that Langston Hughes mentioned ... even,” Weso said. Hughes, the Harlem Renaissance author and poet, lived in Lawrence with his grandmother between 1905 and 1913.