... age 13, he moved to Illinois to live with his now settled mother and her new husband after she got a job and got her life back on track financially. Langston attended Central High School in Cleveland, and began writing poetry in 8th grade where he was selected as the Class Poet ... . When Hughes was 19, his father offered to send him to college in Europe so that he could escape from the racism and segregation that affected every ... essay, wished they were white poets. He took a job in 1925 with Dr. Carter G. Woodson, editor of the Journal of Negro Life and History and founder of Black H...

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