21. Gale - Free Resources - Black History - Biographies - Langston Hughes Tells about the man who achieved fame as a poet of the Harlem Renaissance, then went on to write plays, novels, columns, and essays. http://www.galegroup.com/free_resources/bhm/bio/hughes_l.htm

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22. Langston Hughes Who was langston hughes? What did he do? langston hughes was a black poet who made black people who were sad, cheerful. He had a broken family and was http://www.kyrene.k12.az.us/schools/brisas/sunda/poets/hughes.htm

Who was Langston Hughes? What did he do? Langston Hughes was a black poet who made black people who were sad, cheerful. He had a broken family and was partly raised by his grandmother. Still, he became one of the most famous African-American poets. Langston finished grade school in Lincoln, Illinois. He graduated from Central High School in Cleveland, Ohio in 1920. One day, Langston's father asked Langston to visit him. Langston agreed because he needed help to go to college. On the way to Mexico, Langston wrote a poem called "Negro Speaks Of Rivers". It was published in the Crisis magazine in 1920. His father sent him to study mining engineering at Columbia University in New York. He lived in a nearby city named Harlem. He loved that city because it was filled with black people. He liked it so much that he wrote a poem called "My People" to show how much he loved being black. Langston liked living there, but he didn't like school. Soon he quit school. When he was 21 years old, he joined the crew of S.S. West Hesseltine. He was the only one who brought books. One day, in a sudden attempt to leave his troubled past behind, he threw his books overboard. The only book he kept was Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass. When he was in New York again, Langston worked as a busboy in Washington D.C. at a hotel because at that time, Langston's mother was there, and she wanted to be near him, so Langston moved there in 1925. Once, at the hotel, a very famous poet named Vachel Lindsay was staying at the hotel. So, Langston put some of his poems by Lindsay's dinner plate. Later in the night, many people came to hear Vachel Lindsay read his poems. He read Langston's poems too. He said that he had discovered a new poet. Newspapers and magazines throughout the country wrote about Lindsay's reading. Soon everyone knew about the new black poet, Langston Hughes.

23. IHAS Poet A central figure of the Harlem Renaissance, the flowering of AfricanAmerican culture in 1920 s and 30 s, Missouri-born langston hughes used his poetry, http://www.pbs.org/wnet/ihas/poet/hughes.html

(JAMES) LANGSTON HUGHES A central figure of the Harlem Renaissance , the flowering of African-American culture in 1920's and 30's, Missouri-born Langston Hughes used his poetry, novels, plays, and essays to champion his people and voice his concerns about race and social justice. His youth was marked by poverty, the separation of his parentshis father emigrated to Mexico where Hughes would later visita matriarchal, church-going education, and a nomadic series of moves that would eventually bring him to New York City in 1921. There, with some money sent by his father, he enrolled in Columbia University, wrote his first verse, and began to publish in THE CRISIS, the historic magazine of the N.A.A.C.P., founded by W.E.B. DuBois When funds for continuing college dried up, Hughes moved to Harlem at the height of its golden era. For the remainder of the decade he would associate with all her prominent figures DuBois, Countee Cullen, Zora Neale Hurston, Alain Locke, Jessie Redmon Fauset, Jean Toomer, Arna Bontemps, and Carl Van Vechten; receive patronage from the formidable but controlling Charlotte Mason; make voyages of self-discovery to Africa and Europe, and return to the States with a freer, more confident vision of his own identity as an African-American, an artist, a leftist(he would later spend some time in Russia and answer for it in the McCarthy Hearings), and a homosexual. Hailed as the Negro Poet Laureate SELECTED PASSAGES FROM LANGSTON HUGHES' WRITINGS MY PEOPLE (set by

24. PAL: Langston Hughes (1902-1967) langston hughes and the Chicago defender essays on race, politics, and culture, 194262. Ed. Christopher C. De Santis. Urbana U of Illinois P, 1995. http://web.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap9/hughes.html

PAL: Perspectives in American Literature - A Research and Reference Guide - An Ongoing Project Paul P. Reuben (To send an email, please click on my name above.) Chapter 9: Langston Hughes (1902-1967) LH Bibliography Modern American Poetry: LH Primary Works Selected Bibliography 1980-Present ... Home Page Source: US Postal Service "I knew only the people I had grown up with, and they weren't people whose shoes were always shined, who had been to Harvard, or who had heard Bach." - LH Hughes was the first African American author to support himself through his writing; he produced more than sixty books. He earned critical attention for his portrayal of realistic black characters and he became one of the dominant voices speaking out on issues concerning black culture. He wrote in many genres; starting and continuing with poetry, he turned to fiction, autobiographies, and children's books. His most famous fictional character is Jesse B. Semple, nicknamed Simple, who uses humor to protest and satirize the existing injustices. I, too, sing America.

25. Voices And Visions Spotlight -- Langston Hughes Learn more about langston hughes by visiting Web sites that explore his life and poetry. Voices Visions, a video series from The Annenberg Media http://www.learner.org/catalog/extras/vvspot/Hughes.html

Elizabeth Bishop Hart Crane Emily Dickinson T. S. Eliot ... Robert Frost Langston Hughes Robert Lowell Marianne Moore Sylvia Plath Ezra Pound ... William Carlos Williams Langston Hughes, among the most versatile and prolific of modern American authors, achieved distinction in poetry, fiction, and drama. Race is at the center of his workthe beauty, dignity, and heritage of blacks in America. But Hughes was never racisthe always sought to speak to all Americans, especially on the larger issues of social, economic, and political justice. View a video clip of the Langston Hughes poem "Dream Deferred". Academy of American Poets Find out why Hughes was viewed as the unofficial poet laureate of his race in the exhibit, "Poets of the Harlem Renaissance and After." This site explores Harlem Renaissance poetry, presents Hughes reading "The Negro Speaks of Rivers," and offers a selection of Hughes's other poetry as well as a brief biography. HarperAudio: Langston Hughes Can feet tell the story of a person's life? Listen as Hughes's character Jesse B. Semple answers this question, describes Harlem of the 1940s, and tells other "Simple" stories. The stories, originally newspaper features, are read by actor Ossie Davis. Perspectives in American Literature This page, "Chapter 9: Harlem RenaissanceLangston Hughes," offers questions to consider as you read Hughes's work. You'll also find a listing of his works and a bibliography.

26. A Centennial Tribute To Langston Hughes Born in 1902 in Joplin, Missouri, langston hughes grew up mainly in Lawrence, Kansas, but also lived in Illinois, Ohio, and Mexico. http://138.238.41.254/Reference/Webliographies/Langston_Hughes2_files/Langston_H

A-Z Index Sterling HU Home Langston Hughes: A Centennial Tribute You are at: Home Reference Customized Webliographies A Centennial Tribute to Langston Hughes Painting by Artist Winold Reiss, National Portrait Gallery LANGSTON HUGHES ~Dream Deferred~ What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore and then run? Does it stink like rotten meat? Or crust and sugar over like a syrupy sweet? Maybe it just sags like a heavy load Or does it just explode? LANGSTON HUGHES, was part of the Harlem Renaissance and was known during his lifetime as "the poet laureate of Harlem," He also worked as a journalist, dramatist, and children's author. His poems, which tell of the joys and miseries of the ordinary black man in America, have been widely translated. James Langston Hughes was born on Feb. 1, 1902, in Joplin, Mo. In 1921 he enrolled at Columbia University in New York City but he was so lonely and unhappy that he left after a year.

27. David Kresh On Langston Hughes (Journeys And Crossings, Library Of Congress Digi Meet David Kresh, Reference Specialist in Poetry, Humanities and Social Sciences Division, Library of Congress. Mr. Kresh discusses the poetry of langston http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/journey/hughes.html

The Library of Congress Especially for Researchers Virtual Programs and Services Home Langston Hughes' Poetry Find in Journeys and Crossings Pages All Library of Congress Pages Langston Hughes and His Poetry Meet David Kresh, Reference Specialist in Poetry, Humanities and Social Sciences Division, Library of Congress. David Kresh discusses Langston Hughes and his poetry. View Webcast Read a transcript Note: To view the Webcast, you must have the RealPlayer software, available at the RealNetworks player download site. Library of Congress Web Sites of Interest Langston Hughes's Birthday . Today in History. Contains an essay on Hughes's life, with links into American Memory collections. Drafts of Langston Hughes's poem "Ballad of Booker T.," 30 May-1 June 1941. (Langston Hughes Collection). Words and Deeds in American History , American Memory.

28. Poet: Langston Hughes - All Poems Of Langston Hughes Poet langston hughes All poems of langston hughes .. poetry. http://www.poemhunter.com/langston-hughes/

Poem Hunter .com Poet: Langston Hughes - All poems of Langston Hugh 1/27/2008 12:29:12 AM Home Poets Poems Lyrics ... SEARCH Langston Hughes Free Poetry E-Book: 49 poems of Langston Hughes File Size: 280k File Format: Acrobat Reader To download the eBook right-Click on the title and select "Save Target As". Biography Poems Quotations Comments ... Stats Born in Joplin, Missouri, James Langston Hughes was the great-great-grandson of Charles Henry Langston (brother of John Mercer Langston, the first Black American to be elected to public office). He attended Central High School in Cleveland, Ohio, where he began writing poetry in the eighth grade. Hi .. .. more >> Poems Search in the poems of Langston Hughes Click the title of the poem you'd like read. Page: Advertisement For The Waldorf-Astoria April Rain Song As I Grew Older Bad Morning ... Let America be America Again Page: Quotations "I was so sick last night I Didn't hardly know my mind. So sick last night I Didn't know my mind. I drunk some bad licker that Almost made me blind."

29. Langston Hughes National Poetry Project A national poetry project that extends the legacy of langston hughes, the AfricanAmerican poet and writer, to sites in nine states and Washington DC. http://www.continuinged.ku.edu/hughes/

Photograph of Langston Hughes by James Allen Speakers' Bureau The Project on the History of Black Writing The Academy of American Poets Langston Hughes Exhibit and Reading Guide National Council of Teachers of English Beineke Library Langston Hughes Exhibit This project began as part of the centennial celebration of Langston Hughes's life and work (1902–2002). It involves a series of public poetry and book discussion programs and an accompanying website. Targeting diverse audiences and populations, "Speaking of Rivers" proposes to increase interest in and exposure to poetry as a spoken and written art, as a form of participatory democratic activity, and as a means of advancing human understanding. Poetry Circle Sites award-winning centennial "Let America be America Again: An International Symposium on the Art, Life, and Legacy of Langston Hughes," challenged the dominant view of poetry as elitist, incomprehensible, or unappealing to ordinary people. The University of Kansas symposium represents one manifestation of the international renewal of interest in Hughes, as well as in poetry as a public art form. Centennial Activities "Speaking of Rivers" builds on the success of the centennial activities, especially the reassessment of Hughes's literary and cultural importance and the growing popularity of poetry by providing opportunities for reading, listening to, and talking about poetry and its role in American culture. It takes poetry beyond the classroom and the academy, brings poets in contact with larger and more diverse audiences, and helps restore poetry to a place of importance.

30. Langston Hughes Young langston hughes curled into his grandmother s lap as she wrapped him with a bulletriddled shawl. He stroked the tattered shawl and listened as http://www.kshs.org/people/hughes_langston.htm

Langston Hughes Young Langston Hughes curled into his grandmother's lap as she wrapped him with a bullet-riddled shawl. He stroked the tattered shawl and listened as Grandmother Langston told how her first husband, Sheridan Leary, had gone to Harper's Ferry, Virginia, in 1859. Leary, a freeman, died at John Brown's side, fighting for the freedom of others, leaving the shawl behind as a symbol of his commitment to the cause. Through Grandmother Langston's stories Hughes learned to be courageous and to fight for his beliefs. She taught him to judge a man by his actions, not by the color of his skin, and that all people deserved to be free. Born in 1902, Hughes spent his early years living with his mother or grandmother in Lawrence and Topeka. His childhood was a lonely time and he fought the loneliness by writing poetry. One of his early poems, "The Negro Speaks of Rivers," was published by Crisis magazine when Hughes was nineteen. Hughes traveled the world and wrote of his experiences. For a time he worked on a film project in the Soviet Union and wrote for a soviet newspaper. In 1937 he covered news from the Spanish Civil War for the American press. Words became his weapons as he developed his poems and essays, many were published during the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s and 1930s. Hughes created the fictional character of Jesse B. Semple, who became known to readers of the Chicago Defender in a series of short stories. Semple became a voice for the frustrations and triumphs of African Americans in the early 1940s through his common language and simple ways. The social commentary Semple espoused earned Hughes the reputation of a rebel.

31. Langston Hughes Links langston hughes is one of her favorite writers and here she has included one of his funniest accounts of why Semple s feet are so special in this world of http://www.liben.com/Hugheslinks.html

Liben Music Chamber Catalog Orchestra Catalog Red Mark CD/DVD Catalog Audio Excerpts About Liben Music Frank Proto Information Frequently asked Questions Ordering Info Contact Info Links to Related Sites Shopping Cart Check your Cart Search Our Catalog Composer: Title: The sites listed here provide some interesting insight and information on the life and work of an American Original. Afro-American Fragments A new Compact Disc featuring unusual settings of nine Langston Hughes Poems. A Wind in the Attic A painting of Langston Hughes by Winold Reiss. Dream Deferred Another poem from Afro-American Fragments plus brief biography of Hughes with links to other related material. The Langston Hughes Review The Official Publication of The Langston Hughes Society The Langston Hughes Tribute A site created by Christopher Kamsler Dedicated to the great Harlem Renaissance poet, Langston Hughes. Origins About Hughes' early life while residing in Lawrence, Kansas. Poet Hero An essay by Jeff Trussell. Jesse B. Semple: Feet Live Their Own Life With imaginatively drawn characters that bring a story to life, CYNthia HARges has put together a collection of images and stories. Langston Hughes is one of her favorite writers and here she has included one of his funniest accounts of why Semple's feet are so special in this world of ours. The University College Library A rich list of Hughes related links presented by The Broward Community College and Florida Atlantic University.

32. Drop Me Off In Harlem 1920s, langston hughes was one of the first African Americans to earn a living solely as a writer. hughes was known mainly for his poetry. http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/exploring/harlem/faces/hughes_text.html

Find out more about the literary movement during the Renaissance in Black Writers Tell It on the Mountain Langston Hughes Poet, novelist, playwright, essayist ARTSEDGE is a project of the Education Department of The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and is a member of the MarcoPolo Partnership Read " The Weary Blues ." Lauded as the "Poet Laureate of Harlem" in the 1920s, Langston Hughes was one of the first African Americans to earn a living solely as a writer. Hughes was known mainly for his poetry. But he also wrote plays, novels, a wealth of nonfiction pieces, and even an opera. In his explorations of race, social justice, and African-American culture and art, Hughes' writing vividly captures the political, social, and artistic climates of Harlem in the 1920s and 1930s. After a transitory adolescence, Hughes moved to Harlem in 1926, where he worked with and befriended such artists, writers, and scholars as Aaron Douglas, Countee Cullen, and Alain Locke. Infused and inspired by the jazz and blues that surrounded him at hot spots such as the Savoy Ballroom, Hughes weaved the rhythms of contemporary music into his poems. Often his writing riffed on the energy of life in Harlem itself.

33. Featured Author: Langston Hughes Special section from the New York Times features articles about the man and his works. Includes a sixminute audio clip of hughes reading selected poems. http://www.nytimes.com/books/01/04/22/specials/hughes.html

Featured Author: Langston Hughes With News and Reviews From the Archives of The New York Times In This Feature Reviews of Langston Hughes's Earlier Books Articles About and by Langston Hughes Audio Langston Hughes Reads From His Poetry Recent Links David Levering Lewis Reviews 'Remember Me to Harlem: The Letters of Langston Hughes and Carl Van Vechten, 1925-1964' (April 22, 2001) First Chapter: 'Remember Me to Harlem' Langston Hughes in 1938. AUDIO: From the Caedmon audio tape "Langston Hughes Reads From His Poetry." Click here to listen to the entire reading (6 minutes). Click below to listen to selections from the reading. One Way Ticket The Negro Speaks of Rivers Trumpet Player Ballad of the Gypsy ... Southern Mammy Songs This feature requires Real Player Previous Audio Readings From The New York Times on the Web REVIEWS OF LANGSTON HUGHES'S EARLIER BOOKS: Not Without Laughter ". . . very slow, even tedious, reading in its early chapters, but once it gains its momentum it moves as swiftly as a jazz rhythm. Its characters, emerging ever more clearly . . . as the novel proceeds [are a] living challenge to our civilization, a challenge that is all the more effective because it springs naturally out of its materials and is not superimposed upon them." Popo and Fifina: Children of Haiti "Here is a travel book that is a model of its kind. . . . One follows their adventures, the simple everyday happenings, with interest. . . . tempts us to wish that all our travel books for children might be written by poets."

34. Langston Hughes In Lawrence (KS): Photographs & Biographical Resources, By Denis langston hughes in Lawrence (KS) Photographs Biographical Resources New book by Lawrence, Kansas authors Denise Low and TF Pecore Weso, assembles photos http://www.kansashistory.us/langstonhughes.html

Kansas History Langston Hughes in Lawrence, Kansas: [Langston Hughes, the great American poet who inspired the Harlem Renaissance Langston Hughes in his twenties, circa 1930 from L. Hughes Biography from Crossing Boundaries : Kansas Humanities Council. Langston Hughes himself refers to places he lived, worked, played, attended church, and worshiped in his autobiographies and autobiographical novel Not without Laughter . Katie Armitage and other Lawrence scholars began researching sites associated with Hughes in the 1970s. Low and Weso tour Lawrence and find his grandparents’ farmland, Lawrence homesites, and other buildings associated with Hughes. His opportunities as well as obstacles in his hometown laid the foundation for his later achievements. In addition to a virtual tour of Langston Hughes’s Lawrence, there is a genealogical essay on the tri-racial writer. His ancestry includes Powhatan, Cherokee, and possibly Lumbee Indian ancestors, as well as African and European. These are illustrated with a genealogical diagram. The book includes photos and related text of Downtown Lawrence, Central Lawrence and Pinckney, the University of Kansas, East Lawrence, Oak Hill Cemetery, Woodland Park, Lakeview. Other resources are a genealogy tree diagram, a genealogical biography, and summaries of the city directories, mortgage and deed sources, and Langston Hughes’ appearances in Kansas, 1932-1965.

35. Seattle Parks & Recreation: Langston Hughes Performing Arts Center The langston hughes Performing Arts Center operates as a cultural performing arts center under the Seattle Department of Parks and Recreation. http://www.seattle.gov/parks/centers/langston.htm

whichDept = "" //this var is used to pass a unique department identifier to the Google search toggle whichStyle = "services_frontend" SEARCH: Seattle.gov This Department Parks Activities A - Z Index whichDept = "Parks"; whichStyle = "parks_frontend"; SPARC - Online Registration Community Centers Pools Environmental Learning Centers ... Computer Technology Learning Centers Langston Hughes Performing Arts Center Information: Address: directions Hours Closed Teen Programs 7th Annual MLK March Seattle Parks and Recreation Teen Programs has a dream... We would love to have over 200+ teens attend our 7th annual Martin Luther King march and workshops. You can help make that happen by passing on this info to a teen or youth serving agency and encouraging them to get out and make a difference. All teens that participate will receive a free MLK t-shirt and lunch after the workshops. Thank you for your help and hope to see you at the march. Who: Seattle Parks and Recreation Signature Teen Programs What: 7th Annual MLK Teen March When: Saturday January 19th, 2008 noon-4 p.m.

36. Langston Hughes Website District IT and langston hughes staff are working to accomplish the web publication of our closed circuit broadcasts asap. Thanks for your patience. http://schools.usd497.org/langstonhughes/

LHTV Student Book Reviews School Bookmarks Contact Webmaster Langston Hughes Elementary School Lisa Thompson, Principal 1101 George Williams Way 66049 Voice: 832-5890 FAX: 832-5898 LHTV on the web is under construction. District IT and Langston Hughes staff are working to accomplish the web publication of our closed circuit broadcasts asap. Thanks for your patience. "Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you." -Langston Hughes Office Hours 8:00 AM to 4:00 PM, Monday - Friday School Hours Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday 1st through 6th Grades: 8:45 AM to 3:45 PM Kindergarten AM: 8:45 AM to 11:55 AM Kindergarten PM: 12:35 PM to 3:45 PM Wednesday 1st through 6th Grades: 8:45 AM to 2:15 PM Kindergarten AM: 8:45 AM to 11:05 AM Kindergarten PM: 12:35 PM to 2:15 PM

37. Langston Hughes @Web English Teacher Lesson plans and teaching resources for several works by langston hughes. http://www.webenglishteacher.com/hughes.html

from LaborLawTalk.com Word: Definition: English Math Teacher Labor Law ... Labor Law Center Employment law requires that employers post mandatory labor law posters . Our complete labor law poster combines the mandated state, federal and OSHA posters on one poster. Book Reports Children's Literature Drama ... Young Adult Literature Langston Hughes Lesson plans and teaching ideas Blast to the Past! In conjunction with reading "Thank You, Ma'am," students investigate life in the Fifties and create a trivia game. Drop Me Off in Harlem: Langston Hughes This site, sponsored by the Kennedy Center, explores the relationships among leaders of the Harlem Renaissance. It's a good source of background information. A Generation: Lost and Found Extensive background information and rationale introduces this unit on the Harlem Renaissance. Special emphasis is given to blues music and the Hughes story "Cora Unashamed." A Guide to Harlem Renaissance Materials The Library of Congress presents a variety of materials on Langston Hughes and other Harlem Renaissance artists. Guide to Langston Hughes Introductory essay, critical material, discussion questions, and more.

38. Borzoi Reader | Authors | Langston Hughes Take an audiovisual tour of nine letters between langston hughes and Carl Van Vechten, the subject of Emily Bernard s Remember Me to Harlem, and listen to http://www.randomhouse.com/knopf/authors/hughes/poem.html

The Collected Poems Selected Poems TThe Ways of White Folk The Panther and the Lash The Dreamkeeper Remember Me to Harlem : The Letters of Langston Hughes and Carl Van Vechten, 1925-1964 Edited by Emily Bernard Take an audio-visual tour of nine letters between Langston Hughes and Carl Van Vechten, the subject of Emily Bernard's Remember Me to Harlem , and listen to a rich conversation between Emily and Judith Jones, who was Langston Hughes's last editor and who continues to work at Knopf. THE LANGSTON HUGHES REVIEW , official publication of the Langston Hughes Society Langston Hughes's Academy of American Poets page New York Public Library's Langston Hughes archives ... "Favorite Poem Project" "Minstrel Man" View the text of the Langston Hughes poem "Ode to Dinah" as it appeared in the first edition of the collection Ask Your Mama The image of the page you will see includes both text and musical directions in the margin the entire series of poems in Ask Your Mama is meant to be read as and heard in the mind as a performance or to be actually performed in its entirety with a speaker and jazz musicians. Take a look and see how the text of the musical directions folds in with the poem itself. page one page two page three page four ... page nine While at the artist colony Yaddo in the summer of 1943, Hughes began "work on a series of verses with an assertive, brassy Harlem heroine named Alberta K. Johnsonor 'Madam' Johnson, as she insisted on being called. Hughes named the entire suite 'Madam to You.'" (from

39. Langston Hughes - Poetry Archive langston hughes (19021967) was the first black writer in America to earn his living from writing. Born in Joplin, Missouri, he had a migratory childhood http://www.poetryarchive.org/poetryarchive/singlePoet.do?poetId=1551

40. Lesson Plan - Langston Hughes Miniunit introduces fifth- and sixth-graders to the African-American writer. http://teacherlink.ed.usu.edu/tlresources/units/Byrnes-famous/hughes.html

Langston Hughes Mini-Unit Author : Sharla Beverly Related Topics : Music, Poetry, Civil Rights Movement, Geography, and Choral Reading Grade Level Background James Langston Hughes was born in Missouri on February 1, 1902 to parents who soon separated. Langston's childhood was spent in the care of friends and relatives throughout the midwest and northeast. He moved frequently and felt abandoned. In an attempt to deal with his loneliness, Langston began to write poetry. He was a frequent visitor to the local library. Langston believed in books more than people. While attending high school, Langston was active in many extra curricular activities including the school magazine. Many of his published poems showed the influence of his favorite poets, Carl Sandburg and Walt Whitman. The themes were often of social injustices and what it meant to be black. Realizing he couldn't depend on his parents for financial support, he began to work and save his money for college. He published his first poem in Brownies Book , a new magazine for black children. Soon

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