... public office in 1855. Hughes started writing poetry in the eighth grade at Central High School in Cleveland, Ohio. Elected to be the class poet, his father did not support his writing as a career, and encouraged him to get a more practical profession. Attending his first college at Columbia ... editor of the Journal of Negro Life and founder of Black History Week. Hughes wrote sixteen books of poems, two novels, three collections of short stories, four volumes of "editorial" and "documentary" fiction, twenty plays, children's poetry, musicals and operas, three autobiographies, a dozen ...

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... world becomes." ~ Sonia Sanchez In Ms. Sanchez" first two collections of poetry, "Home Coming" (1969) and "We a Baddd People" (1970), she reflects views inspired perhaps, by the example of Malcolm X; they were militant and anti-white. She incorporates dialect and profanity, in most cases using a combative tome. Sanchez used her ... Woman" at the University of Pittsburgh. (African 2000) Joyce Ann of Chicago State University declares that Sanchez" language comes out in her immediate surroundings and accents her characters" lifestyles. Her refusal to use standard, academic English is a part...

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