... Mexico to free himself from the Jim Crow laws and segregation. Langston Hughes then went to live with his grandmother in Lawrence, Kansas until he was thirteen. His grandmother, Mary Sampson Patterson Leary Langston, was very prominent in the African American community of Lawrence. Unfortunately, she was unable to give Langston the attention he needed and his feelings of hurt and ... ...

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... home alone, sleeping, to avoid the cost of child care. When Langston was six his mother decided she had moved her son around too much. She enlisted her mother, Mary Sampson Patterson Langston, to take over the care of Hughes so she would be free to move around and Langston would have a somewhat normal life. While living with his grandmother, Langston ... ...

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