Langston Hughes
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African American Voices.Conneticutt:The Millbrook Press, 1995
Adventures in American Literature. Chicago: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc., 1980
. We Too Sing America. G. Casey Cassidy.Online. Yale New Haven Teachers
. The Influence of Musical Folk Traditions in the Poetry of
and Nicolás Guill. Ka ....
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.... She helped Hughes to see the cause of social
justice.
As a lonely child Hughes turned to reading and writing, publishing his first poems while
in high school in Cleveland, Ohio. In 1921 he entered Columbia University, but left after an
unhappy year. Even as he worked as a delivery man, a messmate on ships to Africa and Europe,
a busboy, and a dishwasher, his poetry appeared regularly in such magazines as The Crisis
(NAACP) and Opportunity (National Urban League).1 As a poet, Hughes was th ....
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