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-Born February 1, 1902 in Joplin Missouri
-Died May 22, 1967
-Burial site is in Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York City, NY

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-Wife of Mary Patterson Leary

-Son of James Hughes and Carrie Langston

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-Small towns
-Cuba
-Mexico
-USA

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He published his first work in 1921 and he wrote all the way up to the day he died

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He published his first work in 1921 and he wrote all the way up to the day he died

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-Father Left
-Divorced
-Cuba to Mexico
-His grandparents were enslaved
-Grew up during segregation
-All of his works sound depressing due to this fact

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-Interested in communism
-Award named after him
-Killed during an abdominal surgery

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Jack London(American Novelist)
Henry Adams
Zane Grey
Sarah H. Bradford

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-Writer

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The Negro Speaks of Rivers published in 1921

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Summary- He is grateful for what he has in America. He has been through so much for where he is now is what he is forever grateful for

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Summary- He is connecting to the fact that when people are around him his is referred to as a slave

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Summary- Openly shares thoughts on the American Dream.He enforces race, religion, and social groups

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Summary- “To enjoy different types of games in some unhappy places.”, also meaning just enjoy life and hand fun

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Freedom & Inequality (Let America be America Again)

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Euphrates River(The Negro Speaks of River

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1909-Taft is inauguration as 27th President
1912- New Mexico & Arizona become states
1914-Panama Canal Opens
1919- 18th Admendment Passed, establishing Prohibition

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1914-WW1
1929- Stock Market Crashes Leading to the Depression
1930- Dust Bowl
1939-WW2

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A New Song 1938
A Pictorial History Of African Americans 1956
A Pictorial History Of the Negro In America 1963
African American History 1967
An African Treasury 1960
Ask Your Mama - 12 Moods For Jazz 1961
Black Misery 1969

Book Of Negro Folklore 1958
Don't You Turn Back 1969
Famous American Negroes 1960
Famous Negro Heroes Of America 1958
Famous Negro Music Makers 1955
Fields Of Wonder 1947
Fight For Freedom 1962
Fight For Freedom, the Story Of the Naacp 1962
Fine Clothes To the Jew 1927
Five Plays 1963
Five Plays By Langston Hughes 1968
Freedom's Plow 1943
Good Morning Revolution 1973
Hughes 1958
I Wonder As I Wander 1993
I, Too, Am America 1986
Jim Crow's Last Stand 2007
Langston Hughes 1984
Laughing To Keep From Crying 1952
Let America Be America Again 2004
Lullaby 2013
Montage Of a Dream Deferred 1951
Mule Bone 1991
My People 2006
New Negro Poets 1964
New Negro Poets U S A 1966
Not Without Laughter 2008
One-Way Ticket 1949
Pictorial History Of Black America 5 R 1983
Poems From Black Africa 1970
Poetry For Young People 2006
Selected Poems 1967
Selected Poems Of Langston Hughes 1990
Shakespeare In Harlem 1942
Short Stories 1996
Simple Speaks His Mind 1950
Simple Stakes a Claim 1957
Simple Takes a Wife 1953
Simple's Uncle Sam 2000
Something In Common, and Other Stories 1963
Tambourines To Glory 2006
Thank You M'Am 1991
The Best Of Simple 1988
The Best Short Stories By Black Writers 2008
The Best Short Stories By Negro Writers 1967
The Big Sea 1993
The Big Sea an Autobiography 1986
The Book Of Negro Humor 1966
The Collected Works Of Langston Hughes 2001
The Dream Keeper 1994
The Dream Keeper and Other Poems 2007
The First Book Of Africa 1960
The First Book Of Jazz 1955
The First Book Of Negroes 1952
The First Book Of Rhythms 1954
The Langston Hughes Reader 1981
The Negro Speaks Of Rivers 2009
The Panther the Lash 1967
The Poems 1999
The Return Of Simple 1994
The Short Stories Of Langston Hughes 1996
The Sweet and Sour Animal Book 1994
The Sweet Flypaper Of Life 1967
The Ways Of White Folks 1990
The Weary Blues 1945
Vintage Hughes 2004
Works For Children and Young Adults 2001