Langston Hughes
Langston Hughes was an african american authorpoet who experienced racism throughout his lifetime. ... Langston Huges was born in Joplin, Missouri, on Febuary 1, 1902. ... He wanted to own his own firm and have langston work by his side. ... Langston attended school and lived with his mother while his father was in Mexico. ... The other students wouldnt socialize with him because he was black, so Langston found comfort and friends in his books. ... His grand mother supported him by telling stories about his grandfather, who was killed fighting for freedom before Langston was born. Langston live with his grandmother until she died when he was about thirteen. ... so Langston wen to live with them in Lincoln, Illinois. ... Langston agreed because he needed help to go to college. ... Langston like living there but he didnt like school, so he spent a year at Columbia and quit. ... At the hotel where Langston was staying he was reconized by a famous poet named Vachel Lindsay. Lindsay read Langstons poems and had them published, soon after everyone knew about the new blacak poet, Langston Hughes. ... When Hughes worked aboard the "West Illana", on his way to Africa and Europe, he met a small boy, probably a runnaway from an inland village. This boy was an inspiration for Hughes, so he wrote a story called the "The Little Virgin" in which the small boy is the protagonist. ... Hughes wrote and told the story in his point of view, and from what he has witnessed, the boy was no different from him when he was a child.