Langston Hughes

      Langston Hughes was born in February 1,1902 and died May 22,1967. Hughes was a poet, novelist, play writer, and a social activist. He was one of the first people who started to writing jazz poetry. But Hughes was best know as the leader of the Harlem Renaissance.

    The Harlem Renaissance was a group of African Americans that wanted to express there culture across the urban areas in the Northeast and Midwest United States was also know as the Great Migration. they were trying to share culture and spreed peace and freedom for all.

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