... was Carrie Mercer 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 ... published his first volume of poems, The Weary Blues. In 1953 he won the Anisfeld-Wolfe Award. Hughes also won the Witter Bynner Prize for undergraduate poetry while attending Lincoln Unive...

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... in 1855. His childhood was marked by poverty and the separation of his parents ripped him apart, living with his mother, father and grandmother. He lived in Mexico, Topeka, Kansas, Colorado, Indiana, and Buffalo. At age thirteen he moved back with his mother, who now was remarried. The family moved to Cleveland, Ohio, for his stepfathers work. Langston was interested in ... famous poems, "The Negro Speaks of Rivers". It appeared in the African-American journal crisis in 1921."(Langston Hughes) Soon later, his father paid his tuition to go to Columbia University to study engineering beca...

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