Word: langston
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...development. In the future it also intends to do right by Negro science, literature, sport, religion. Scheduled to go on the air about once a month for the next half-year Freedom's People hopes to feature such Negro eminents as Scientist Dr. George Washington Carver, Author Langston Hughes, Artist Aaron Douglas, Fighter Joe Louis many another...
...fight to gain an equal footing with the white man here as in every other field in which he has tried to make headway. There is every reason to claim that jazz is the Negro's own artistic achievement. In every form of artistic expression there is an occasional Langston Hughes or Paul Robeson or Richard Wright, but in jazz the Negro comes into his own in a medium he himself invented and developed...
Today Karamu House is a study and workshop for 1,400 youngsters and 800 grownups. Its Gilpin Players have produced 140 plays, rank as the No. 1 Negro theatre in the U. S. They have graduated to the professional stage Playwright Langston Hughes, Actor John Marriott (The Little Foxes}, many another talented Negro. Two months ago 600 Clevelanders, big & small, gathered to celebrate Karamu House's 25th anniversary. Said Play wright Paul Green: "The Jelliffes are the kind of dreamers who have made America great." To play a joke on teacher by falling asleep in class, six Minneapolis...
...miss them. I ask myself, why is this? And then I realize that the men have children's faces." A woman with a raft of friends, Diseuse Oswald got for her debut the sponsorship of such child-faced U. S. men as Malcolm Cowley, John Erskine, Langston Hughes...