... about him being colored. As a result, after school classmates would grab stones and tin cans from the ally and chase him home. Langston also had other negative experiences. James Presley notes "one summer in Chicago when he was a teen-ager Langston Hughes felt the American Dream explode in his face; a gang of white youths beat him up so badly that he ... hair, Skin like an autumn moon. Gold ripe young yellow girl with a white house dress to her knees. Soft plump bare legs, color of the moon."(Beverly White, "African American Literature: A Contrast Between North and South" par 29) Claren...

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