... member but conceded that some of his radical verse had been ill advised. Hughes's career hardly suffered from this episode. Within a short time McCarthy himself was discredited and Hughes was free to write at length about his years in the Soviet Union in I Wonder as I Wander in 1956. On May 22, 1967, Hughes died after having had abdominal surgery. Langston Hughes ... younger black writers in 1926. His art was firmly rooted in racial pride and racial feeling even as he cherished his freedom as an artist. Through his poetry, novels, plays, essays, and children's books, he promoted equalit...

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