As a young boy he lived in Buffalo, New York, Cleveland, Ohio, Lawrence, Kansas, Mexico City, Topeka, Kansas, Colorado Springs, Colorado, and Kansas City, Kansas. In 1914 his parents divorced and he, his mother, and his stepfather moved to Lincoln, Illinois. In high school back in Cleveland, he was elected class poet, and editor of the senior class yearbook. He taught English to some families in Mexico in 1921 and also published his first prose piece, "Mexican Games"(Davis). In an excerpt from an article about Langston Hughes in Encarta 97, it says that he was discovered in 1925, while he was working as a busboy in a restaurant in Washington, D.C., when he accidentally left three of his poems next to the plate of Vachel Lindsay, an American poet. She helped him get publicity for his works and she got him seriously started in writing (Encarta).

In an article about Langston Hughes in The Reference Library of Black America it talks about all the places in the world that Hughes has traveled. He probably used much of the in

Langston Hughes dies of cancer on May 22, 1967. The New York City Preservation Commission has given his residence at 20 East 127th Street in Harlem, New York to the community so that they can learn about this talented man, So they renamed the block he stayed on “ Langston Hughes Place”.

Made many contributions on the behalf of African- Americans, which led to the end of discrimination and segregation (Davis).

Years later a group of white and black workers walked in and demanded to be served. They did get their meals and ended the segregation in that particular restaurant. This shows how prejudice was in the early 1900's. Even during the start of the Harlem Renaissance people still hated African-Americans. That story shows why Hughes wrote so many protest poems and became so involved in the black movement(Davis).

Langston Hughes was the father of the Harlem Renaissance and made many contributions on the behalf of African-Americans which led to the end of discrimination and segregation. Hughes was an important figure in the Harlem Renaissance because he was one of the most talented and famous black writers in his time. Even West Indian poets saw Hughes as the father of the Negritude Movement. It seemed as though Hughes used

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