The Collected Works of Langston Hughes

  • The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: Essays on art, race, politics, and world affairs
    By Langston Hughes, Dolan Hubbard, Leslie Catherine Sanders

    12 In Julian Mayfield's novel The Hit for a large number of Harlemites the Godot of their daily life is a numbers banker named John Lewis of whom one of the characters says , “ John Lewis never really comes .

  • The Collected Works of Langston Hughes
    By Langston Hughes, Dolan Hubbard

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  • The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: Gospel plays, operas, and later dramatic works
    By Langston Hughes

    ... LANGSTON ) from South Carolina , Thomas E. Miller and George W. Murray ( Enter MILLER and MURRAY ) And from North Carolina , James E. O'Hara , Henry The Ballot and Me 469 Part 5: Radio Plays.

  • The Collected Works of Langston Hughes
    By Langston Hughes, Steven C. Tracy

    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 Collected Works of Langston Hughes
    By Langston Hughes, Dolan Hubbard, Leslie Catherine Sanders

    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 ...

  • The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: The early simple stories
    By Langston Hughes

    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 Collected Works of Langston Hughes: The poems, 1921-1940
    By Langston Hughes, Dolan Hubbard, Leslie Catherine Sanders

    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 !

  • The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: The novels
    By Langston Hughes

    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 ...

  • The Collected Works of Langston Hughes
    By Langston Hughes, Dolan Hubbard

    ... Howard McGhee Jimmy McPartland Bubber Miley Frank Newton Red Nichols King Oliver Hot Lips Page Louis Prima Henry ... Dorsey Amos Gilyard Tyree Glenn Charlie Green Jimmy Harris J. C. Higginbotham Lou McGarity Glenn Miller Miff Mole ...

  • The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: The early Simple stories
    By Langston Hughes

    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 ...

  • The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: The poems, 1941-1950
    By Langston Hughes, Dolan Hubbard, Leslie Catherine Sanders

    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...

  • The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: The later simple stories
    By Langston Hughes

    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 Collected Works of Langston Hughes: Fight for freedom and other writings on civil rights
    By Langston Hughes

    The sixteen volumes are published with the goal that Hughes pursued throughout his lifetime: making his books available to the people.

  • The Collected Works of Langston Hughes
    By Langston Hughes, Dolan Hubbard, Steven Carl Tracy

    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 Collected Works of Langston Hughes
    By Langston Hughes

    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
    By Langston Hughes

    The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: V. 1. The Poems, 1921-1940

  • The Collected Works of Langston Hughes
    By Langston Hughes, Dolan Hubbard

    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 Collected Works of Langston Hughes: The short stories
    By Langston Hughes, Dolan Hubbard, Leslie Catherine Sanders

    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 Collected Works of Langston Hughes: The novels
    By Langston Hughes, Dolan Hubbard, Leslie Catherine Sanders

    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,...