... blacks and other minorities, Hughes called for cooperation among all races. With one ear tuned in to the voices he heard on the street and the other to the music he heard in nightclubs, Hughes created poems that made him one of the stars of the Harlem Renaissance. ... Blues, was published to a chorus of praise from black and white reviewers alike. Langston returned to college, this time at Lincoln University, an all-male, black institution located in the wooded countryside south of Philadelphia. He produced few new poems at this time. In 1927, he wrote one of his best-known Smith 5 essays...

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• Grade Level: High School