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This timeline starts on February 1, 1902 when James Mercer Langston Hughes was born in Joplin, Missouri, second child of Carrie Hughes and James Hughes.
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His parents seperated and Langston Hughes move home repeatedly staying with relatives and friends.
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Langston Enrollls at Columbia University in September study engineering as agreed with his father but becomes involved with writers in Harlem and publishes " The Negro of Rivers". He drops out of Columbia University travels to Africa, Holland, and Pari. In November 1924, Hughes returned to the US to live with his mother in Washington DC.
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Hughes wins the Opportunity magazine potery contest for "The Weary Blues"
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In November 1924 he moved to Washington DC.
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The Weary is published by Alfred Knopf and Hughes enrolls in Lincoln University, a HBCU in Chester County, Pennsylvania.
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Hughes second book of poems, Fine Clothes on the Jew is published by Alfred Knopf.
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In 1930 he published his first novel "not without laughter"
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Langston Hughes died of cancer complications from prostate cancer in May 22, 1967 in NYC.
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The first Langston Hughes Metal was awarded by the City College of NYC.
