... with his mother and his stepfather, Homer Clark, eventually settling in Cleveland, Ohio. Hughes attended Central High School in Cleveland, Ohio, but began writing poetry in the eighth grade and was selected as Class Poet. Following graduation from high school in 1920, Hughes spent a year in Mexico with ... of Langston Hughes: I, Too, Sing America) At this same time, Hughes accepted a job with Dr. Carter G. Woodson, editor of the Journal of Negro Life and History and founder of Black History Week in 1926. He returned to his beloved Harlem later that year. Langston Hughes returned to ... ...

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... greatest poets America has ever produced. The literature he created became part of the Harlem Renaissance Movement. The term Harlem Renaissance refers to an artistic, cultural, and social growing of writing about race and the African American's place in American life during the early 1920s and 1930s. Hughes' poetry announced to the world that the streets of black America were culturally ... and fiction, The Harlem Renaissance appealed to a mixed audience. The literature appealed to the African American middle class and to the white book-buying public. Magazines as The Crisis, a monthly ...

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... Langston Hughes was born on February 1, 1902 in Joplin, Missouri to a family of abolitionists. His father, James Nathaniel Hughes, was a storekeeper and his mother was a school teacher who also enjoyed writing poetry. The brother of Langston's grandfather, John Mercer Langston, was the first Black American to be elected to public office in 1855. His childhood was marked by poverty and the ... a cattle rancher. "On the train, when he returned to the north, Hughes wrote one of his most famous poems, "The Negro Speaks of Rivers". It appeared in the African-American journal crisis in 1921."...

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