Word: langston
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wrote black Langston Hughes on the first page of his first volume of poetry (The Weary Blues, 1926). Last week the same theme ran through Poet Hughes's first play. Mulatto. In the South the dominant white race demands that when a Negro takes a white woman he must pay instantly with his life. On the other hand when a white man takes a Negro woman, the tragedy is often delayed for years. Mulatto deals with the slower tragedy...
Mulatto (by Langston Hughes; Martin Jones, producer...
...attention of millions of Negro tots was directed this week. All over the land black schoolmarms observed Negro History Week by discoursing proudly to their pupils about the life & work of such distinguished living Negroes as Singers Paul Robeson and Roland Hayes, Novelist Claude McKay, Poets Countee Cullen and Langston Hughes, and of such famed dead...
Lincoln has turned out its fair share of Negro teachers and doctors, more than its share of Negro clergymen. Poet Langston Hughes and Physician Eugene Percy Roberts went there. So did five college presidents, one U. S. Congressman, two U. S. Ministers to Liberia. Many of Lincoln's 300-odd students sing in the glee club, find jobs as waiters at Atlantic City in the summer. Among them are such well-named persons as Benjamin Franklin Coleman, Scipio Solomon Johnson, John Milton Smith, Woodrow Wilson Smithey, James Madison Walden...
...occasion, Negro Poet Langston Hughes (The Weary Blues, Fine Clothes to the Jew) wrote a "workers' song" entitled " One more 'S' in the U. S. A." Excerpt...