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    Langston Hughes was an influential American writer and poet in the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s. He used his writing to advocate for social and civil progress for black Americans. His first book of poetry The Weary Blues was published in 1926. Hughes wrote novels, plays, poetry and engaged with jazz music to portray black life in America from the 1920s through the 1960s. He refused to differentiate his personal experiences from the common black American experience. Hughes died in 1967 and his ashes are buried in Harlem as a tribute to his advocacy through poetry.

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    Langston Hughes was an influential American writer and poet in the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s. He used his writing to advocate for social and civil progress for black Americans. His first book of poetry The Weary Blues was published in 1926. Hughes wrote novels, plays, poetry and engaged with jazz music to portray black life in America from the 1920s through the 1960s. He refused to differentiate his personal experiences from the common black American experience. Hughes died in 1967 and his ashes are buried in Harlem as a tribute to his advocacy through poetry.

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    Langston Hughes was an influential American writer and poet in the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s. He used his writing to advocate for social and civil progress for black Americans. His first book of poetry The Weary Blues was published in 1926. Hughes wrote novels, plays, poetry and engaged with jazz music to portray black life in America from the 1920s through the 1960s. He refused to differentiate his personal experiences from the common black American experience. Hughes died in 1967 and his ashes are buried in Harlem as a tribute to his advocacy through poetry.

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    Langston Hughes was an influential American writer and poet in the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s. He used his writing to advocate for social and civil progress for black Americans. His first book of poetry The Weary Blues was published in 1926. Hughes wrote novels, plays, poetry and engaged with jazz music to portray black life in America from the 1920s through the 1960s. He refused to differentiate his personal experiences from the common black American experience. Hughes died in 1967 and his ashes are buried in Harlem as a tribute to his advocacy through poetry.

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    James Langston Hughes

    (James Langston Hughes; Joplin, 1902 - New York, 1967)


    American writer. He was one of the greatest exponents of
    the Harlem Renaissance of the twenties and also, later, the
    main representative of the Afro-American culture, which
    had in him not only one of his most brilliant poets but also
    an indefatigable protagonist and popularizer. . Through his
    writings and public interventions, his main objective was
    the social and civil progress of the population of color in
    the United States.

    His childhood was spent in Kansas with his maternal


    grandmother. He lived for a brief period with his father in
    Mexico, but abandoned him because of his contempt for his own race. He traveled by sea
    and worked in subaltern jobs in France and Italy, before making his appearance in the
    literary scene of Harlem, where he published between 1921 and 1925, in the magazines
    Crisis and Opportunity, some poems that led him to fame: The Black speaks of Rivers,
    Mother to son and The Weary Blues, which gave its first collection title in 1926.

    It was in Lincoln that Hughes began writing poetry. After graduating from
    high school, he spent a year in Mexico followed by a year at Columbia
    University in New York City. During this time, he held odd jobs such as
    assistant cook, launderer, and busboy. He also travelled to Africa and Europe
    working as a seaman. In November 1924, he moved to Washington, D. C.
    Hughes’s first book of poetry, The Weary Blues, (Knopf, 1926) was published
    by Alfred A. Knopf in 1926. He finished his college education at Lincoln
    University in Pennsylvania three years later. In 1930 his first novel, Not
    Without Laughter, (Knopf, 1930) won the Harmon gold medal for literature.
    Hughes, who claimed Paul Lawrence Dunbar, Carl Sandburg, and Walt
    Whitman as his primary influences, is particularly known for his insightful,
    colorful portrayals of black life in America from the twenties through the
    sixties. He wrote novels, short stories and plays, as well as poetry, and is also
    known for his engagement with the world of jazz and the influence it had on
    his writing, as in his book-length poem Montage of a Dream Deferred (Holt,
    1951).
    His life and work were enormously important in shaping the artistic
    contributions of the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s. Unlike other notable
    black poets of the period—Claude McKay, Jean Toomer, and Countee Cullen
    —Hughes refused to differentiate between his personal experience and the
    common experience of black America. He wanted to tell the stories of his
    people in ways that reflected their actual culture, including sboth their
    suffering and their love of music, laughter, and language itself.
    Death and Legacy
    On May 22, 1967, Langston Hughes died from complications of prostate
    cancer. A tribute to his poetry, his funeral contained little in the way of spoken
    eulogy, but was filled with jazz and blues music. Hughes' ashes were interred
    beneath the entrance of the Arthur Schomburg Center for Research in Black
    Culture in Harlem. The inscription marking the spot features a line from
    Hughes' poem "The Negro Speaks of Rivers." It reads: "My soul has grown
    deep like the rivers."
    Hughes' Harlem home, on East 127th Street, received New York City
    Landmark status in 1981 and was added to the National Register of Places in
    1982. Volumes of his work continue to be published and translated throughout
    the world.

    LANGSTON'S
    POEMS
    CONCLUSIONS

     Langston Hughes through his writings and public


    interventions, his main objective was the social and
    civil progress of the population of color in the United
    States.
     He through his poems as leaving us the legacy of
    fighting for a better world where values help us
    contrary to the problems we have as a society, to
    fight for a justice that respects the dignity of people,
    that exists us more discrimination that is a barrier to
    be able to live in an harmonic coexistence
     On the other hand, through their friendship and
    strength of each of his verses, it encourages us to
    afford our dreams because without them the life has
    no reason, to leave the fears, to overcome the
    difficulties that we find in our life always having the
    motivation in our mind to fulfill our goals.

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