Langston Hughes History of a Harlem Renaissance Man
Langston Hughes The story of an African American Poet During a time in American History were African Americans did not have right of equality or freedom of speech. Langston Hughes during the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s, influenced a lot of people with his poems, short stories, novels, essays and his bravery to promote equality among African Americans and that racism should be put to an end. Langston Hughes is an African American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist. Born on February 1, 1902 in Joplin, Missouri and died on May 22, 1967 in New York, NY. Hughes used three elements to write his literatures poverty, racism, and suffrage. Langston Hughes came from a dysfunctional family his partners divorced. Hughes was the second child of a school teacher Carrie Mercer Langston and his father James Nathaniel Hughes which all he wanted was to escape the abiding racism in the United States. Langston Hughes came from different descents his “paternal and maternal great grandmothers were African American, his maternal great- grandfather was white and of Scottish descent. A paternal great-grandfather was of European Jewish descent” (poemhunter.com). Langston Hughes was raised in the Midwestern full of small towns, as a child Hughes went through a lot he would spend most of his childhood years in Lawrence, Kansas he wasn’t a happy child, and after losing his grandmother he had no choice but to move with a family friend for a couple years, all that pain was then later shown in his famous poems. When Langston Hughes was already an adolescent he lived once again with his mother in Cleveland, Ohio. Hughes went to high school where he was elected class poet he couldn’t believe what happened to him especially during the time that African Americans weren’t appreciated he would also write for the schools newspaper, edit the year books, and he started to write his first piece of poetry known as “The Weary Blues”.
The relationship he had with his father
The relationship he had with his father