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.

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 ...

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 ...