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read the passages on the biography langston hughes and zora neale hurston and do the following activities biography: langston hughes james mercer langston hughes (february 1, 1902 – may 22, 1967) was an american poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist from joplin, missouri. he was one of the earliest innovators of the then-new literary art form called jazz poetry. hughes is best known as a leader of the harlem renaissance. he famously wrote about the period that “the negro was in vogue”, which was later paraphrased as “when harlem was in vogue.” born james mercer langston hughes february 1, 1902 joplin, missouri, united states died may 22, 1967 (aged 65) new york city, united states occupation poet, columnist, dramatist, essayist, novelist ethnicity african american, white american, native american period 1926–64 career first published in the crisis in 1921, “the negro speaks of rivers,” which became hughes’s signature poem, was …

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considered their manifesto, “the negro artist and the racial mountain,” published in the nation in 1926: the younger negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. if white people are pleased we are glad. if they are not, it doesn’t matter. we know we are beautiful. and ugly, too. the tom-tom cries, and the tom-tom laughs. if colored people are pleased we are glad. if they are not, their displeasure doesn’t matter either. we build our temples for tomorrow, strong as we know how, and we stand on top of the mountain free within ourselves. his poetry and fiction portrayed the lives of the working-class blacks in america, lives he portrayed as full of struggle, joy, laughter, and music. permeating his work is pride in the african-american identity and its diverse culture. “my seeking has been to explain and illuminate the negro …

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eatonville’s mayor. zora attended the town’s school, where she studied the teachings of booker t. washington. she was greatly influenced by the philosophy that education, hard work, and perseverance could improve the lives of black americans. zora’s mother died in 1904. her father remarried and sent her to live with relatives. frustrated by her situation, zora took a job as a maid for a musical theater troupe in 1916. she traveled the country, learned about theater, and continued her studies by borrowing books from the performers. after eighteen months of life on the road, zora quit her job to finish high school in baltimore. she then enrolled at howard university, one of the most famous black colleges in the country. life at howard was about more than attending class. zora was an active participant in campus life. she helped publish the inaugural issue of the school newspaper in 1924 and …

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e called fire! some people criticized the magazine for downplaying white supremacy. but zora and her colleagues felt that there needed to be a place for black americans to celebrate their culture without fear. in 1927, zora met charlotte osgood mason, a white philanthropist who offered to fund zora’s work. zora used the funds to plan an elaborate road trip through the american south. during her travels, she conducted interviews, recorded folklore, and collected objects of cultural significance. she spent the spring and summer in florida. then she traveled to alabama to interview the last known living man to be born in africa and enslaved in america. while in alabama, zora ran into friend and harlem renaissance luminary langston hughes. langston and zora traveled back to new york together, stopping at several cities along the way. they visited the tuskegee institute, which was founded by booker t. washington. then, they …

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stories, and novels. in 1930, zora and langston hughes co-wrote a play called mule bone. when they disagreed on how much credit each was to receive, the project and their friendship ended. years later, scholars would argue that the play was a true collaboration by two great talents of the harlem renaissance. zora survived the great depression by publishing fiction while working. she taught theater at the historically black colleges bethune cookman college and fisk university, and worked as a drama coach for the works progress administration. zora earned a guggenheim fellowship to study in jamaica and haiti. in 1934, she published of mules and men, an anthropological study of the folklore she gathered during travels through florida and new orleans. at the same time, zora continued to write fiction. she published her first novel, jonah’s gourd vine, in 1934. in 1937, she published what would become her most famous …

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read the passages on the biography langston hughes and zora neale hurston and do the following activities biography: langston hughes james mercer langston hughes (february 1, 1902 – may 22, 1967) was an american poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist from joplin, missouri. he was one of the earliest innovators of the then-new literary art form called jazz poetry. hughes is best known as a leader of the harlem renaissance. he famously wrote about the period that “the negro was in vogue”, which was later paraphrased as “when harlem was in vogue.” born james mercer langston hughes february 1, 1902 joplin, missouri, united states died may 22, 1967 (aged 65) new york city, united states occupation poet, columnist, dramatist, …

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