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Langston Hughes - poems - Poem Hunter
Classic Poetry Series Langston Hughes - poems - Publication Date: 2012 - The World's Poetry ArchiveLangston Hughes (1 February 1902 22 May 1967) Hughes was an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, andcolumnist. He was one of the earliest innovators of the then-new literary art formjazz poetry. Hughes is best known for his work during the Harlem famously wrote about the period that "Harlem was in vogue." Biography Ancestry and Childhood Both of Hughes ' paternal and maternal great-grandmothers were African-American, his maternal great-grandfather was white and of Scottish descent. Apaternal great-grandfather was of European Jewish descent. Hughes 's maternalgrandmother Mary Patterson was of African-American, French, English and NativeAmerican descent. One of the first women to attend Oberlin College, she firstmarried Lewis Sheridan Leary, also of mixed race. Lewis Sheridan Learysubsequently joined John Brown's Raid on Harper's Ferry in 1859 and died fromhis wounds.
university in Chester County, Pennsylvania. He joined the Omega Psi Phi fraternity. Thurgood Marshall, who later became an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, was an alumnus and classmate of Langston Hughes during his undergraduate studies at …
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