Langston Hughes was a poet, story writer, and activist in the 1920’s during the Harlem Renaissance. He was born in 1902 in Missouri He was known mostly for his poetry in which he wrote these poems about the everyday lives of black Americans, and the Black working class. In his early life he didn't have much family left, and was combating his loneliness by reading.

I choose Langston at random from the list of literature, as I think literature was the most effective way of getting ideas and information spread.