Term Papers on Langston Hughes

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Langston Hughes

     Langston Hughes was born on February 1, 1902 in Joplin, Missouri.  His father was James
Nathaniel and his mother was Carrie Mercer Langston Hughes.  His grandfather was Charles Langston, an
Ohio abolitionist.  As a young boy he lived in Buffalo, New York, Cleveland, Ohio, Lawrence, Kansas,
Mexico City, Topeka, Kansas, Colorado Springs, Colorado, and Kansas City, Kansas.  In 1914 his parents
divorced and he, his mother, and his stepfather moved to Lincoln, Illinois.  In high school back in
Cleveland, he was elected class poet, and editor of the senior class yearbook.  He taught English to some
families in Mexico in 1921 and also published his first prose piece, "Mexican Games"(Davis).  In an
excerpt from an article about Langston Hughes in Encarta 97, it says that he was discovered in 1925, while
he was working as a busboy in a restaurant in Washington, D.C.,  when he accidentally left three of his
poems next to the plate of Vachel Lindsay, an American poet.  She helped him ge!
t publicity for his works and she got him seriously started in writing(Encarta).  In an article about Langston
Hughes in The Reference Library of Black America it talks about all the places in the world that Hughes
has traveled.  He probably used much of the information of the cultures of other countries to write.  Hughes
traveled all over the world as a seaman.  He went to the Soviet Union, Haiti, Japan, Spain, Genoa, France,
and other parts of Europe.   Hughes was an author, anthologist, librettist, songwriter, columnist, translator,
founder of theaters, and a poetical innovator in jazz


technology.  Hughes liked to write in many genres such as prose, comedy, drama, fiction, biographies,
autobiographies, and TV and radio scripts.  Langston Hughes was the father of the Harlem Renaissance and
made many contributions on the behalf of African- Americans which led to the end of discrimination and
segregation(Davis).
     Hughes was an  important figure in the Harlem Renaissance because he was one of  the most
talented and famous black writers in his time.  The Harlem Renaissance was the black movement during
the 1920's.  Many African-Americans got famous during this time and more people in the United States and
the world got to see another side of African- Americans which had never been seen before.  People saw that
blacks could do things the same or better than white people and many, but certainly not all, barriers like
segregation were decreased noticeably.  He wrote numerous protest poems in which he used irony to get his
points across to the reader.  Hughes was influenced by Jean Toomer, another black writer and poet.  It
seemed as though Hughes used his poetry as a way to combat against the ongoing struggle that African-
Americans still face today.  Many believe that his best poem...

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