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Langston Hughes: Writer, Poet And Social Activist

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Langston Hughes was a novelist, playwright, poet, and social activist. He was born in Joplin, Missouri in Feb 1 1902. Hughes is considered the father of beat poetry. He was a major contributor to as a leader to the Harlem Renaissance, during which, he wrote about the era when being an African-American was becoming mainstream, which was later known as the Golden Age of Harlem.

Langston Hughes was descended from African-American great-grandmothers and White great-grandfathers, both of were slave owners from Kentucky. One of his great-grandfathers, Sam Clay, was a Scottish-American who lived in Henry County, brewed Scotch whiskey and was reportedly a relative of Henry Clay. The other great grandfather was a Jewish man named Silas Cushenberry,

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