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Carrie Langston with son Langston Hughes in 1902. Carolina Mercer Langston (January 18, 1873 – June 3, 1938) was an American writer and actress. She was the mother of poet, playwright and social activist Langston Hughes .
Carrie Langston Hughes was a Kansas native and a strong advocate for woman’s suffrage, women’s rights, and the rights of African Americans. She was the mother of poet Langston Hughes and helped him gain admission to a segregated school in New York.
16. Feb. 2015 · As a girl, Carrie Langston was known as “the Belle of Black Lawrence.” Hungry for attention, she aspired to a career on the stage, but her dreams were stymied by prejudice and by the limits of...
James Mercer Langston Hughes (February 1, 1901 [1] – May 22, 1967) was an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist from Joplin, Missouri. One of the earliest innovators of the literary art form called jazz poetry, Hughes is best known as a leader of the Harlem Renaissance.
Langston Hughes—known early in his career as “Poet Laureate of the Negro Race” and, now, as the preeminent poet of the Harlem Renaissance—was born James Mercer Langston Hughes in Joplin, Missouri to Carrie Langston and Charles Hughes. Recent revelations from historical African American weekly newspapers strongly suggest his birth year ...
19. Jan. 2007 · Poet, novelist, playwright, librettist, essayist, and translator, James Mercer Langston Hughes was born in Joplin, Missouri on February 1, 1902, to parents Caroline (Carrie) Mercer Langston, a school teacher, and James Nathaniel Hughes, an attorney.
19. Jan. 2024 · Langston Hughes was a leading figure of the Harlem Renaissance, a movement of Black culture and art in the 1920s. He wrote poems, novels, plays, and columns that explored the African American experience and identity.
