Langston Hughes Poetry
About the Harlem Renaissance & Langston Hughes
About the Harlem Renaissance & Langston Hughes
Watch the following video by Crash Course to learn a little more about the literary movement of which Langston Hughes played a significant role: The Harlem Renaissance. This movement, originating in Harlem, New York, contained poetry, prose and literature, essays, plays, art, and more, all from Black artists in America around the 1920s and 1930s.
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Further Reading
Further Reading
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Further Poems from Langston Hughes and other notable Black poets
Further Poems from Langston Hughes and other notable Black poets
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