Langston Hughes Collection 1925-1956

Hurston, Zora Neale, 1891-1960

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Zora Neale Hurston was an American author, anthropologist, and filmmaker. She portrayed racial struggles in the early-1900s American South and published research on hoodoo. The most popular of her four novels is Their Eyes Were Watching God, published in 1937. She also wrote more than 50 short stories, plays, and essays. Hurston was born in Notasulga, Alabama, and moved with her family to Eatonville, Florida, in 1894. She later used Eatonville as the setting for many of her stories. It is n...

Langston, Hughes

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(James) Langston Hughes (February 1, 1902-May 22, 1967), an African-American writer, poet, playwright and columnist made influential contributions in his life and work during the Harlem Renaissance in the 1920's. In 1925 Hughes won first prize in the poetry section of the 1925 Opportunity magazine literary contest, which launched his literary career. His first volume of poetry appeared in 1926. In 1942, he became a columnist for the African American newspaper, the Chicago Defender. Hughes used t...

Moon, Henry Lee, 1901-1985

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Journalist; Mr. Moon d.1984. From the description of Reminiscences of Henry Lee Moon and Robert C. Weaver : oral history, 1980. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309742018 ...

Hughes, Carrie, 1873-1938

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Carrie Langston Hughes (b. Carolina Mercer Langston, Jan. 18, 1973, Lake View, KS-d. Jun. 3, 1938, New York, NY) daughter of Charles Langston and Mary Leary and grew up in Kansas. She was known for being beautiful and also was part of Lawrence's (KS) St. Luke's Progressive Club and elected 'Critic' at a rival society at the Warren Street Second Baptist Church. As a writer, Hughes was knom for supporting suffrage and women's rights; she encourages the participation of Black women in politics. I...

Molly

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Alain Locke

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Crown Publishers

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Wilder was the signer of the letter from Crown Publishers. From the description of Correspondence to Alma Mahler, 1957. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155863108 Crown Publishers is a New York City-based publishing company that was established in 1933. In 1986, under its imprint Harmony Books, Crown Publishers, published When Brooklyn Was the World by Elliot Willensky. In 1988, Crown Publishing Group, whose imprints included Crown Publi...

Peter Abrahams

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Etta Motten

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