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Instead, 20,000 people met in New York's Madison Square Garden to hail Randolph's leadership and to pledge continued support to his efforts for full employment without discrimination. Certainly the doors of industry had been opened to ...
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 ...
This is from Your boon coon, Kite And the last word were spelled wrong, p-l-e-s-e for please. Nothing there, just ignorance, talking about 'your boon coon.' But I looked so hurted on purpose until Joyce cried out loud.
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 !
They don't want us up there with them, even when we're respectable like Dr. Mitchell, or smart like Dr. Du Bois. . . . And guys like Jap Logan—well, Jap don't care anyway! Maybe it's best not to care, and stay poor and meek waiting for ...
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Let Willie Mays live in Levittown and Casey Stengel live in Ghana if he so desires. And let me drink at the Stork Club if I get tired of Small's Paradise. Open house before open skies. After which comes peace, which you can't have nohow ...
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...
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.
I Wonder As I Wander (1956), Hughes's second volume of autobiography, is a continuation from The Big Sea, detailing his global travels to such areas as Cuba, Haiti, Paris, the...
The essays and newspaper columns included in this volume are based on photocopies from the original sources. In preparing Fight for Freedom and Other Writings on Civil Rights, I have made silent corrections of obvious misspellings and ...
The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: V. 1. The Poems, 1921-1940
The eighteen volumes are published with the goal that Hughes pursued throughout his lifetime: making his books available to the people. Each volume will include a biographical and literary chronology...
The eighteen volumes are published with the goal that Hughes pursued throughout his lifetime: making his books available to the people. Each volume will include a biographical and literary chronology...
Although best known as a poet, Langston Hughes was also the author of two novels that richly evoke the black experience in America. First published in 1930 and 1958, respectively,...