| Front | Langston Hughes |
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| Back | 1902 67 Black American Novelist short story writer poet and Playwright Harlem Renaissance Alain Locke's importtant anthology The New Negro 1925 James Mercer Langston Hughes (February 1, 1902[1] – May 22, 1967) was an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist from Joplin, Missouri. He moved to New York City as a young man, where he made his career. One of the earliest innovators of the then-new literary art form called jazz poetry, Hughes is best known as a leader of the Harlem Renaissance. He famously wrote about the period that "the negro was in vogue", which was later paraphrased as "when Harlem was in vogue."[2] |
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