James Mercer Langston Hughes was an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist from Joplin, Missouri. One of the earliest innovators of the literary art form called jazz poetry, Hughes is best known as a leader of the... Wikipedia
Born: February 1, 1901, Joplin, MO
Died: May 22, 1967 (age 66 years), Stuyvesant Polyclinic
Education: Lincoln University (1926–1929), Columbia University (1921–1922), Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science, and more
Parents: Carrie Langston Hughes and James Nathaniel Hughes
Influenced: James Weldon Johnson, Nina Simone, and Gil Scott-Heron
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