{"id":139,"date":"2025-08-17T16:02:01","date_gmt":"2025-08-17T16:02:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/fys-pinsker\/?page_id=139"},"modified":"2025-09-09T19:19:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T19:19:15","slug":"langston-hughes-harlem-1951","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/fys-pinsker\/texts\/langston-hughes-harlem-1951\/","title":{"rendered":"Langston Hughes, \u201cHarlem\u201d (1951)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Langston Hughes (Wikipedia<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Langston Hughes<\/a>\u00a0(1901\u20131967) is best known as an intellectual leader of the Harlem Renaissance, a movement celebrating African American arts and literature that flourished in the Harlem section of Manhattan in New York in the 1920s and 1930s. Hughes was born in Missouri and spent time during his childhood in Lincoln, Illinois and in Cleveland, Ohio.\u00a0 He traveled the world after high school, studying and holding various jobs.\u00a0 He published his first volume of poetry,\u00a0The Weary Blues<\/em>, in 1926 before he had even graduated from college.\u00a0 This poem, \u201cI, Too,\u201d appeared in that volume from publisher, Alfred A. Knopf and created an immediate sensation.\u00a0 Hughes continued writing and traveling, publishing poetry, prose, fiction, and plays over the span of four decades.\u00a0 He is perhaps best known for his poem, \u201cHarlem,\u201d which appeared as part of collection entitled,\u00a0Montage of a Dream Deferred<\/em>\u00a0(1951) and later became the inspiration for a popular play and movie by Lorraine Hansberry: \u201cA Raisin in the Sun.\u201d\u00a0 Hughes died in 1967.<\/p>\n

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