Langston Hughes (1902-1967)

Langston Hughes was born on 1^st February in 1902 and died on 22^nd May in 1967. He was one of the most important writers of the Harlem Renaissance. Hughes's creative genius was influenced by his life in New York City's Harlem. Hughes poetry helped Americans literature and politics. Langston Hughes, and other activists of the Harlem Renaissance, had a strong sense of racial pride. Through his poetry, novels, plays, essays, children's books, condemned racism and injustice and celebrated African American culture, humour and spirituality.

The poem "I, Too, Sing America" by Langston Hughes is represented in the movie "The Great Debaters" (2007), starring Denzel Washington.