I feel comfortable in stating that Langston Hughes was the narrator of black life in the early to mid nineteen hundreds. Not simply because he wrote about the lifestyle of the black Jazz movement, not only because he wrote about the oppression and struggles, but because he lived it, and brought it to a main stage for all to live the experiences through his writings. Langston Hughes' role as a writer is vital to the history of black and American culture and I think he understood this role and embraced it.
Langston Hughes was a well educated black man. Attending Columbia and leaving with a B average, and finally graduating from Lincoln University, not typical for black men, but this did not separate him from his people. It gave him the opportunity to have the voice of his people heard. His life came with the same problems many other blacks dealt with. Hughes' parents divorced when he was young. His father moved to Mexico and Langston was raised by his grandmother until he......
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