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Langston Hughes raised in Jophlin, Missouri and born February 1, 1902. His parents James Nathenial Langston and Caroline Mercer Langston split, which his father leaving to go live in Mexico, so he lived with his grandmother most of his childhood years growing up.
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After 12 years, Langston gets the chance to join with both his mother and step father in Lincoln, Illonois.
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After graduating from primary school and being elected as one of the best poets in his class in 1916 him and his mother then moved to Cleveland.
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After graduation high school in Cleveland, he was able to move to Mexico to be with his father. While on the road to Mexico with all the free time that was available for him he wrote a poem which is known today as " The Negro speaks of River"
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His poem "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" was published in the NAACP in journal Crisis
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With only one year of attending Columbia University in Harlem, Langston leaves because of the racial discrimination that he faces, but still loved the exposure of the talent their
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Once Hughes moves to Washington, D.C he was a busboy at one of the hotel and noticed a special guess Rachel Lindsay and slipped one of his poems on her table. She was able to get him in contact with an editor.
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His first book " The Weary Blues" was able to get published by Alfred A. Knopf
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After being on the road with a group of African Americans for a film that was failed to be completed, Hughes was more drawn to communism.
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From his outstanding achievements, he was then awarded with the
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He then was awarded with being elected to The American Academy of Arts and Letters
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After all his great work, he came to an end. Langston Hughes an honorable man who passed away due to the complications of prostate cancer.
