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Jake• Fight against
Colonisation in Pandora• Leads a guerilla against
modern colonist• Highly respected among
the “blue” people
LANGSTON HUGHES
• Born in Joplin,1902• James Mercer Langston Hughes• American poet, social activist, novelist,
playwright, and columnist• one of the earliest innovators of the then-new
literary art form jazz poetry• best known for his work during the Harlem
Renaissance
LANGSTON’S CHILDHOOD• His father left the family and divorced his
mother• Live with his grandma since his mother left for
employment• After his grandmother died, went to live with
his family’s friend• Had been elected as the class poet during
High School
LANGLEY’S DEATH
• Died in his 65’s• died from complications after abdominal
surgery, • related to prostate cancer• ashes are interred beneath a floor medallion in
the middle of the foyer in the Arthur Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
• an auditorium named for himLANGSTON HUGHESCARRER
Launch his literary career when he
enrolled at Colombia University
Do menial job after leaving Colombia and has done it for over 3
year
Work as a Freighter at West Coast of Africa
during his Travel Abroad
Join the Harlem Renaissance and
created a short live magazine call ‘Fired!!’
LANGSTON HUGHESCARRER
Launch his literary career when he
enrolled at Colombia University
Do menial job after leaving Colombia and has done it for over 3
year
Work as a Freighter at West Coast of Africa
during his Travel Abroad
Join the Harlem Renaissance and
created a short live magazine call ‘Fired!!’
Wrote his first novel ‘not without laughter’ which
won him the Harmon Gold Medal during his time at Historical Black Lincoln
University At Pennsylvania
He wrote his first play the ‘Mutallo’ in 1935
Wrote his first volume of
autobiography ‘The Big Sea’ in 1940
He also wrote a weekly column in Chicago
Defender during world war 2 in 1942
He also did a musical stage show in 1950
known as ‘Street Scene(1947)’
His first children Story book was known as
Popo & Fifina in 9132
The last book he had wrote is ‘The Panther and The Lash(1967)’
which tell a story about civil right
LANGSTON HUGHESPOLITICAL VIEW
•Drawn to the promise of Communism
•One of the group of black people who went to the soviet union to make a film
•The film was never made
•He was able to travel freely in the communist state
• Involve in supporting communist like writing a poem ‘a new song’ and other poetry which was publish in CPUSA newspaper
• Also show support for the republican faction during Spanish civil war, by travelling to Spain as a correspondent to other various African-American newspaper
• Also join other communist related organization such as John Reed Club and League Of Struggle For Negro Rights.
• He was a sympathizer rather than an active member
• He did not like the black American people to involve in the war but then support the war effort after deciding that the war service would aid their struggle in civil right.
• He was also accused to be an active member of the communist by many political right even though he is not an active member of the communist.
• He then quit as a communist which lead him to be rebuked by the left wing radical which was once support him.
LANGSTON HUGHES RELIGIOUS VIEW
He is a humanist.“critical of belief of god”
Langston Hughes wrote from 1926 to 1967
. He was the first African American to support himself as a writer
from his own experience
he wrote more than 60 books Poems Novels
Short Stories Plays
Children’s Poetries Musicals Operas
Autobiographies
PASSIONS & GENRE IN HIS
WORKS
NON FICTIONSHUMANS
RIGHTRACIAL RIGHT
HIS MASTERPIECE
The Weary BlueThe Ways of White FolksThe First Book of the NegroesThe First Book of Jazz
Fight for Freedom: The Story of the NAACPFamous Negro Heroes of
America
2002: scholar Molefi Kete Asante listed Langston Hughes on his list of 100 Greatest African Americans2002: The United States Postal Service added the image of Langston Hughes to its Black Heritage series of postage stamps1981: New York City Landmark status was given to the Harlem home of Langston Hughes1979: Langston Hughes Middle School was created in Reston, Virginia.1973: the first Langston Hughes Medal was awarded by the City College of New York.1964: Western Reserve University awarded Hughes an honorary Litt.D.
AWARD & HONOUR
Langston Hughes Society
United States-based literary society concerned with the work of African American poet Langston Hughes
The organisation presents the Langston Hughes Award annually
Founded after the his death and in the wake of the Langston Hughes Study conference of
1981
Human left but their legacy will continue forever
Many thing we can took from Langston as lesson to us
Human must not be discriminated in whatever waySlavery should not be practice nowdaysWe must try to help each other in any way # Langston help his fellow race through his work