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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...
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...
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...
Divinity School. Preaching Service. Mr. C. A. Langston. Divinity Chapel...