Inspiration and Themes: “I, Too” was written during the Harlem Renaissance, a time of burgeoning African American cultural ...

In the summer of 1927, Hughes lit out for the American South ... the encounter brought together two leading lights of the Harlem Renaissance. On the spot, the pair decided to drive back to New ...

Hughes, the Harlem Renaissance author and poet, lived in Lawrence with his grandmother between 1905 and 1913. As an adult, he wrote 16 books of poems, two novels and numerous other works ...

“Harlem nights became show nights for the Nordics” was the way Langston Hughes put it. In 1923, when the Cotton Club opened, Harlem was in the midst of its Renaissance, but the Cotton Club was ...

"There was never a Harlem like the Harlem of last night. Take a dozen Christmases, a score of New Year's Eves, a bushel of July 4th's and maybe -- yes maybe -- you get a faint glimpse of the idea."— ...

"There was never a Harlem like the Harlem of last night. Take a dozen Christmases, a score of New Year's Eves, a bushel of July 4th's and maybe -- yes maybe -- you get a faint glimpse of the idea."— ...