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Birth
full name is James Mercer Langston Hughes
born in Joplin, Missouri
His parents were James Nathaniel Hughes and Caroline Mercer Langston -
Moves to be with his mother
Hughes moves to Lincoln, Illinois, to live with his now-remarried mother and stepfather. -
Family moves to Cleveland
His family settles in Cleveland, Ohio. Langston graduates from his primary school, where he is elected class poet -
graduated High School
Hughes graduated from high school in Cleveland, Ohio Read more: https://www.notablebiographies.com/Ho-Jo/Hughes-Langston.html#ixzz5jonh8Zml -
Hughes wrote about his experiences
African American artistic movement in the 1920s that celebrated black life and culture. Hughes's creative genius was influenced by his life in New York City's Harlem, a primarily African American neighborhood. -
published his first poem
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Columbia University (education)
1921-1922 -
Gets a job on S.S. Malone
For six months, hughs travels by freighter to West Africa and Europe. Where he briefly works as a cook in Paris. -
Published his first book
The Weary Blues -
Witter Bynner Undergraduate Poetry prize
Witter Bynner Undergraduate Poetry Prize -
2nd book
Fine Clothes to the Jew
transformed the bitterness which such themes generated in many African Americans of the day into sharp irony and humor. His casual, folk-like style was strengthened in his second book Read more: https://www.notablebiographies.com/Ho-Jo/Hughes-Langston.html#ixzz5joooA6jj -
Graduates from Lincoln University (Education)
from 1926-1929
Receives a Bachelor of Arts degree from Lincoln University in Pennsylvania, which he attended on scholarship. -
Awarded a fellowship
awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, which allowed him to travel to Spain and Russia. -
Recieved an honorary doctorate
Hughs alma mater awards him an honorary doctorate of letters. -
Jim Crow's Last Stand, play
Jim Crow's Last Stand, Atlanta: Negro Publication Society of America. -
Begins teaching career
Field of Wonder is published.
Hughes accepts a one-year appointment as a visiting professor of creative writing at Atlanta University. -
Recieves NAACP award
The NAACP awardS Langston Hughes the Spingarn Medal for distinguished achievements by an African American -
Induction
Inducted into the National Institute of Arts and Letters and publishes Ask Your Mama: Twelve Moods for Jazz, a collection of poetry -
Death
Langston Hughes died from complications of prostate cancer. at Stuyvesant Polyclinic in New York, New York -
Chicago Literary Hall of Fame.
inducted into the Chicago Literary Hall of Fame.