1. Langston Hughes
By Bill Carey

2. Born
Born James Mercer Langston Hughes
Born February 1st, 1902

3. Grandpa
Hughes’s grandfather, Lewis Sheridan Leary, was part of John Brown’s Raid in 1859.

4. College
Hughes enrolled in Lincoln University, a historically black university in Pennsylvania.

5. Early Career
His first published work was titled “The Negro Speaks Of Rivers” and it was published in The Crisis.

6. Communism
Hughes, like many other famous people at the time, was accused of being a communist.

7. Plays
Plays such as Hannibal of the Alps by Michael Dinwiddie and Paper Armor by Eisa Davis were written and preformed about Hughes’s life.

8. Death
On May 22, 1967, Hughes died from complications after abdominal surgery. His ashes are buried beneath a floor medallion in the middle of the foyer in the Arthur Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem

9. In Honor
The Langston Hughes Memorial Library at Lincoln University has a collection of most of Hughes’s work.

10. Video