Literature
Langston Hughes
1901 – 1967
Poet, novelist, playwright, journalist. The defining voice of the Harlem Renaissance. Author of The Weary Blues, Not Without Laughter, Montage of a Dream Deferred, and the Jesse B. Semple stories. The most widely read Black American poet of the 20th century.
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