Here are 10 essential poems by Langston Hughes that capture of the heart of America. Written when he was 17 years old on a train to Mexico City to see his father, “The Negro Speaks of Rivers ...
“Let America Be America Again” resonates ... Finish story here; 10 Langston Hughes Poems That Define the American Spirit.
One book that echoes the themes explored in Langston Hughes's poetry is The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois. This ...
After a half-century of secrecy, author Langston ... Hughes told of his Lawrence childhood and how the discrimination here began to shape his work, political views and perceptions of America.
In that time he was writing poems too, and a novel ... days' of the second Five Year Plan and in Spain in 1937, Langston Hughes' journey from 1930 to 1937 paralleled those of many writers and ...