An addition to a poetry series looks at one of the central figures in the Harlem Renaissance, offering a biography of Langston Hughes and many annotated samples of his work.

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Presents nearly two hundred of the author's poems, including works celebrating African American music and life, denunciations of Jim Crow and racism, and verses about Africa and the Spanish Civil War.