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Hughes (James) Langston
(1902–1967)

American poet and central figure of the Harlem Renaissance, b. Joplin, Mo., grad. Lincoln Univ., 1929. He worked at a variety of jobs and lived in several countries, including Mexico and France, before Vachel Lindsay discovered his poetry in 1925. The publication of The Weary Blues (1926), his first volume of poetry, enabled Hughes to attend... More...

Cameroon, 1969, Langston Hughes

Guinea, 2007, Aime Cezaire, Langston Hughes

USA, 2002, Langston Hughes