Of course he could never forget the barriers that faced a negro at home ... was to me a source of amazement." Langston Hughes is that kind of traveller who seeks after little, and, so, discovers ...

Described by Yuval Taylor in his new book Zora and Langston as “one of the ... a volume “of great importance to the Negro peoples.” Hughes titled these three typewritten pages “Foreword ...

“The Negro Speaks of Rivers” (1921 ... Finish story here; 10 Langston Hughes Poems That Define the American Spirit.

Golden Slippers: An Anthology of Negro Poetry for Young Readers (New York: Harper & Row, 1941). It is reprinted in Arnold Rampersad, ed., The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes (New York: Vintage ...

26. Typed at right top: “Title changed, April 21, 1951” and signed “Langston Hughes, 4/21/51.” On two occasions prior to this in 1948 and 1951, Hughes had also changed the title, first to “Negro and ...

My soul has grown deep like the rivers. One of the most famous Langston Hughes poems is also one of his earliest: “The Negro ...