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Poet Gwendolyn Brooks, center, walks unrecognized by people in Chicago in 1961. Brooks lived on the South Side for most of her life ... show her poems to Langston Hughes when the poet and ...

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Langston Hughes, the poet, playwright and novelist who was a social activist, innovator of jazz poetry and a pivotal leader of the Harlem Renaissance who became known as the “poet of the people.” ...

The man. The poet. The legend. Embodying all three of the above titles, Langston Hughes was known as a key figure in both literary and artistic spaces during the Harlem Renaissance era. During the ...

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