A collection of stories, poems, and other writings for children and young adults by Langston Hughes.
The Mitchell Case I see by the papers Where Mitchell's won his case . Down South the railroads now Must give us equal space . Even if we're rich enough To want a Pullman car , The Supreme Court says we get itAnd a diner and a bar !
Will V-Day Be Me-Day Too? (A Negro Fighting Man's Letter to America) Over There, World War II. Dear Fellow Americans, I write this letter Hoping times will be better When this war Is through. I'm a Tan-skinned Yank Driving a tank.
The great Negro actor , Nash Walker , of " Bon Bon Buddy , the Chocolate Drop " fame , had lived in Lawrence too . And my Uncle Nat ( before he died ) had taught him music , long before I was born . I saw Nash Walker only once , because ...
12 In Julian Mayfield's novel The Hit for a large number of Harlemites the Godot of their daily life is a numbers banker named John Lewis of whom one of the characters says , “ John Lewis never really comes .
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Volume 2 includes the books Shakespeare in Harlem (1942), Jim Crow's Last Stand (1943), Fields of Wonder (1947), and One-Way Ticket (1949). Starting around 1940, Hughes turned away from radical...
Volume 3 collects the poems of the last period of Hughes's life. Montage of a Dream Deferred (1951) brilliantly fused the modernist dissonances of bebop jazz with his perception of...
In Volume 8 of The Collected Works of Langston Hughes, the genial Harlem everyman, Jesse B. Semple returns with his more cosmopolitan bar buddy, Ananias Boyd. Social climber Joyce Lane...
The sixteen volumes are published with the goal that Hughes pursued throughout his lifetime: making his books available to the people.