![]() ![]() He wrote two autobiographies, The Big Sea and I Wonder as I Wander. His plays exploring working-class African American life had a major influence on Broadway and American theater. He meets and brings to life the famous and the humble, from. His wanderlust leads him to Cuba, Haiti, Russia, Soviet Central Asia, Japan, Spain (during its Civil War), through dictatorships, wars, revolutions. ![]() He was active in the fight to free the Scotsboro Defendants and was a journalist in Spain during the struggle for the Republic. In I Wonder as I Wander, Langston Hughes vividly recalls the most dramatic and intimate moments of his life in the turbulent 1930s. ![]() His column introduced the legendary character Simple. He was a journalist and for many years wrote for the Chicago Defender. While never joining the CPUSA, Hughes traveled widely including to the young Soviet Union and wrote many radical and pro-working class poems. A major contributor to the Renaissance, Hughes was also part of its left contingent along with other writers like Richard Wright who joined the Communist Party. The poem was a stunning debut and gained the young poet wide acclaim. One of his first poems “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” was published by W.E.B. Considered to be the poet laureate of the African American people, Hughes came to prominence during the Harlem Renaissance. ![]() On this date in 1902 poet ,activist, and playwright Langston Hughes was born in Joplin Missouri. ![]()
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