Hughes, Langston

Complements Langston Hughes's earlier autobiography "The Big Sea, " telling of the African-American author's life, travels, and writing in the 1930s.

The story of a African-American boy growing to manhood in a small Kansas town.

African-American Classics presents great stories and poems from America''s earliest Black writers, illustrated by contemporary African-American artists. Featured are "Two Americans" by Florence Lewis Bentley, "The Goophered Grapevine" by Charles W. Chesnutt, "Becky" by Jean Toomer, two short plays by Zora Neale Hurston, and six more tales of humor and tragedy.

A collection of columns written by Langston Hughes between 1942 and 1962 for the "Chicago Defender, " offering his views on international race relations, Jim Crow, the South, white supremacy, imperialism and fascism, segregation in the armed forces, the Soviet Union and communism, and African-American art and culture.

A collection of poems by the African-American poet Langston Hughes.

These engaging and wonderfully alive letters paint an intimate portrait of two of the most important and influential figures of the Harlem Renaissance. Carl Van Vechtenolder, established, and whitewas at first a mentor to the younger, gifted, and black Langston Hughes. But the relationship quickly grew into a great friendshipand for nearly four decades the two men wrote to each other expressively and constantly. They discussed literature and publishing. They gossiped about the people they knew in commonJames Baldwin, W. E. B. Du Bois, Ralph Ellison, Zora Neale Hurston, H. L. Mencken. They wrote from near (of racism in Scottsboro) and far (of dancing in Cuba and trekking across the Soviet Union), and always with playfulness and mutual affection..

Presents the play, along with the short story it was based on, and discusses the controversy surrounding Hughes's and Hurston's work.