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Word: langston (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Cornell Freshman--Stroke, J. L. Niles; 7. L. F. Hartman; 6. W. P. Jarvis, 5. B. N. Folk; 4. E. W. Martin; 3. B. W. Langston; 2. Evarts Roeder Jr.; bow, G. J. Winetraub; cox, W. E. Mullestein...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON AND CORNELL 1932 RACE | 5/11/1929 | See Source »

Thus readers of the Pittsburgh Courier (famed Negro Weekly) read last week an article by Author Langston Hughes, bitterly assailing those members of his race whom he considers a pale reflection of white civilization. Meeting upper-level Negroes of Washington, D. C., Mr. Hughes found them critical of Jean Toomer, Rudolph Fisher and Zora Hurston, Negro novelists, of many another Negro author who has written realistic, often tragic narratives of the Negro masses. "Why doesn't Jean Toomer write about nice people?" asked the Washingtonians. Why didn't Rudolph Fisher's City of Refuge* deal with "decent folks"? And they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEGROES: Class Conflict | 4/18/1927 | See Source »

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