Nathaniel and his mother was Carrie Mercer Langston Hughes. His grandfather was Charles Langston, an

Ohio abolitionist. 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 ge!

t 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

s traveled. He probably used much of the information of the cultures of other countries to write. Hughes

Langston Hughes was the father of the Harlem Renaissance and made many contributions on the

Years later a group of white and black workers walked in and demanded to be served. They did get their

blacks could do things the same or better than white people and many, but certainly not all, barriers like

shows why Hughes wrote so many protest poems and became so involved in the black movement(Davis).

and other parts of Europe. Hughes was an author, anthologist, librettist, songwriter, columnist, translator,

made many contributions on the behalf of African- Americans which led to the end of discrimination and

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