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Langston Hughes

Langston Hughes was born on February 1, 1902 in Joplin, Missouri. He grew up in a small Mid-western town in Kansas during the quiet years before World War 1. Where he learned the blues and spirituals, he would later use this to put the musical elements into his poetry and fiction. Langston was an only child and when he went to school he was the only black student. As a Black in Kansas, there were things he could not do like he couldn’t buy an ice cream soda or a ticket to the movies.

His parents divorced when he was a small child, and his father moved to Mexico. His grandmother raised him until he was thirteen, when he then moved to Lincoln, Illinois, to live with his mother and her husband. The search for employment made his mother and stepfather, Homer Clark, to move many tim

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