Modernism
Langston Hughes
1902 – 1967
American writer and social activist (1901–1967)
- United States
- American
- Harlem Renaissance
- jazz poetry
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About
James Mercer Langston Hughes was an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist from Joplin, Missouri. An early innovator of jazz poetry, Hughes is best known as a leader of the Harlem Renaissance.
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1902 – 1967
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