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“James Mercer Langston Hughes, known as Langston Hughes was born February 2, 1902 in Missouri, to Carrie Hughes and James Hughes.” Years later his parents separated. Langston’s father moved to Mexico and became very successful, as his for mother, she moved frequently to find better jobs. As a child growing up Langston spent most of his childhood living with his grandmother named Mary Langston in Lawrence, Kansas. Mary Langston was a learned women and a participant in the civil rights Movement. When

Throughout US history there has been a lot of political, social and economical changes, and all these changes have had positive and negative effects on the people of the US.  During the 1960’s there were a lot of changes and one of these major changes was know as The Civil Rights Movement.  The civil rights movement was a movement created by African Americans to achieve rights equal to white people and have equal opportunity in housing, employment, education, the right to vote, and to not be segregated

families and helping to reduce child abuse for over 175 years. It credits their longevity to many mergers of child welfare agencies over the years in Philadelphia. Turning Points was a product of a 2008 collaboration of the Children Aid Society of Pennsylvania and the Philadelphia Society for Services to Children. Most recently in 2013, the agency became an affiliate with the Public Health Management Corporation (PHMC). Along with the Community Umbrella Agencies, there are a variety of programs that

knew I wanted to ask Michele if she would have the time to help me with this assignment. I was very excited when she accepted. I knew that this would be a great opportunity to see what she does behind the scene. Michele Capilato grew up in Chester county, PA and currently lives in Fort Washington, PA. She has a husband who works for the defense department and a 12-year-old son who loves to play football. After finishing high school, Michele attended Widener University where she earned her Bachelor

Langston Hughes (James Mercer Langston Hughes) was a poet, columnist, dramatist, essayist, lyricist, and novelist. He was one of the earliest innovators of the literary art form called jazz poetry. Hughes, like others, was active in the Harlem Renaissance, and he had a strong sense of racial pride. Through his poem, novels, short stories, plays, and kids books, he promoted equality, condemned racism, and injustice, and celebrated African American culture, and humor. (Illinois). Langston Hughes

The writing and studying of poetry has been around since the start of language. People have always used a rhythm to their words to make something creative or help them remember something. The definition of poetry is “literary work in which special intensity is given to the expression of feelings and ideas by the use of distinctive style and rhythm; poems collectively or as a genre of literature,” according to the Merriam-Webster dictionary. There have been any eras of poetry. These include the Renaissance

As a result of the Burnap brothers’ great influence on him and his experiences at the Chester Academy, Blanchard decided to attend Middlebury College, which was Burnap’s alma mater, from 1828-1832. At Middlebury College, he was very active in the Philomathesian Literary Society and studied parliamentary procedure and learned how to debate. He also published, The Undergraduate, the first of many newspapers he would start throughout his lifetime. After graduation, at the age of twenty-one in 1832

Johal: 2 Jagdeep Johal King Cheek African American Experience December 21st, 2015 Underground Railroad The idea of Underground Railroad emerged in 1834 when the National Antislavery Society in the United States, an organization that was made up of both blacks and white abolitionists used the railroad to enable about 100,000 slaves to find a path to freedom (Smedley 23). The Underground Railroad became a formal organization in 1838 under the leadership of Robert Purvis, a black abolitionist. Under

The Ku Klux Klan is a native-born American racist terrorist organization that helped overthrow Republican Reconstruction governments in the South after the Civil War and drive black people out of politics. It revived in the 20th Century as a social lodge and briefly became a nationwide political power. During the 1960s, the Klan fought the Civil Rights Movement in the South. Under attack in state and federal courts, in a racially changed and disapproving South, the Klan hangs on —marginally, but

farming. Since then, people have continued to move out of the country sides and into urban areas leaving smaller towns with fewer people. The idea of small town America is becoming more obscure as people continue to leave. The small town in Chester County, Pennsylvania had a similar outcome in the 1970s. The picture appears to show a typical town in rural America. The small town’s picture appears to have been taken on a dark and dreary day. The town appears almost empty with only the cemetery of the dead