How Did Langston Hughes Influence The Harlem Renaissance

His life work is important to all of us because it shaped the artistic of Harlem. " My writing has been largely concerned with the depicting of Negro life in America. "(Hughes qtd. In Brainly Quote) Unlike other notable black poets of in this period—Claude McKay, Jean Toomer, and Countee Cullen—Hughes refused to differentiate between his personal experience and the common experience of black Americans.

It was here, at the age of 14, that Langston Hughes began to write poems. When he was 17 his father invited him to live in Mexico with him. His father was a black man but unlike Langston Hughes, James Hughes is not proud of his race. In fact, he hates the fact that he is a black man.

Abraham Lincoln. ** These last famous words: ”Of the people , by the people, for the people”, are used to define democracy and was even adapted by the second article of the constitution of The Fifth French Republic. Lincoln wanted to change the course of events making war a battle against slavery and obtain support for The Union, both outside the country and inside.

Malcolm X was born on May 19, 1925, in Omaha, Nebraska. When he was young, he was a brilliant student, though his teacher had discriminated against him because he was black. His father, Earl Little, was a supporter of Black Nationalist leader Marcus Garvey. His civil right activism prompted death threats from white supremacist, forcing the family to move twice. Later, he was murdered by white supremacists.

Rita Dove’s adolescent consisted of protests and riots of the “Civil Rights Movement”, due to the segregation between race and class during the era of the ‘Jim Crow Laws”. Although these laws were abolished in 1964, around the time Dove was 12 years old, many African Americans are still oppressed. Since Dove had grew up during this era, the environment may have deeply impacted her growth and idea of society. After America had surpassed the years of segregation, many African Americans were able to achieve their goals, including the well accomplished poet, Rita Dove. Rita Dove is an African American poet, who was raised to be well educated by her parents.

Yet he was often criticized by some for using his poetry as a source of “protest” almost as if he was punished for bring blunt and honest about the experience of being black. When in fact he was using his platform to not only to advocate his strong sense of racial pride but to celebrate African American culture, history and spirituality not matter how positive or negative it may have been. He advocated many of these beliefs in his pieces. For example “his conclusion to the poem, "I, too, am America" is a testament of faith in his country men and women to recognize and appreciate the contributions of African-American citizens” (Lewis,

Inspiration Throughout The Decades Langston Hughes once said “In writing truthfully about the life of the Negro people and the relationships of negroes and whites, in this country, it helps to teach Negro children that there is a culture among their own people. Therefore I think that Negro writers help to uplift the whole mass of the people” (Voices and Visions).

This derogatory view become a standard for the South and other opinions that differed from this were frowned upon. Kate Chopin, in her story Desiree’s Baby describes a letter about Armand’s race, “’But, above all,’ she wrote, ‘night and day, I thank the good God for having so arranged our lives that our dear Armand will never know that his mother, who adores him, belongs to the race that is cursed with the brand of slavery’” (Chopin, 4). Armand was raised white, his father keeping his black mother a secret from the world. We can piece together information to infer that not every person in the South held black people in such a deprecating way.

He became double-conscientious after being rejected in part of his childhood. This is true for many Negroes in America who considered themselves as problems. Double consciousness is viewing oneself from a different perspective particularly, others’ perspectives. (Bois, 2005 [1903]) African Americans developed multiple identities for the different social situations. It is suggested that Negroes had struggled to deliver their message to the world because they didn’t want to overemphasise Africanism in America while simultaneously preserving their African identities, in order to form their own message based on their history.

African Americans have been a part of the United States from the very start, yet discrimination is still a very true thing for those people. Many white Americans would say they thought racism ended when Jim Crow laws and slavery was abolished, but just last month a black man and his family were asked to leave a restaurant because a white woman felt threatened by their presence. Is this behavior really necessary? Who can deny that racism is a thing of the past? Specifically, in the media, racism is very evident and African Americans are discriminated in news headlines, television series, and art portrayals.

Douglass and Helen marriage provoked a storm of controversy, since Helen was both white and nearly 20 years younger than Douglass. Her family stopped speaking to her; his children considered the marriage a repudiation of their mother. Douglass says that his first marriage had been to someone the color of his mother, and his second to someone the color of his father. Frederick Douglass was an incredibly talented writer and orator who escaped slavery and brought the issue of slavery to the attention of people in the 1840s, 50s, and 60s.

n 1964 LBJ signed a very important bill some people believe that he had signed it for more political power or sign it for the good of the people and the country? Before Political power LBJ was a teacher in a small Mexican American school in Texas. Document states "They knew even in their youth the pain of prejudice." He experience racism before he was in office the total fear it had on people even young children. Document A gave us a idea of how people without rights looked and dressed.

The case that changed it all came in 1857 as in the North people were also angered over the Dred Scott decision as it only widened the political and social gap between the North and South and took the nation only closer to a civil war. Dred Scott was a slave that was taken to a free slave state with his master and lived on the land for a long time to be only returned to Missouri, which was a slave state but his master passed away and Dred Scott decided to sue for his freedom by the help of abolitionist lawyers. Dred Scott claimed he should be free since he had lived on free soil for many years. In 1857, Dred Scott lost due to decision by seven out of nine of Justices on the Supreme Court voted he must be a citizen, so as a non-citizen he could not sue in a federal court and must go back to being a slave. Howard on page 33 states perfectly what this decision was truly meant by stating, “As relates to these States, it is too plain for argument, that they have never been regarded as a part of the people or citizens of the State, nor supposed to possess any political rights which the dominant race might not withhold or grant at their pleasure.”

John Brown later on had married Dianthe Lusk in 1820 and had lots of children but unfortunately she died in the 1830s. He got remarried to Mary Ann Day in 1833. John brown had moved a lot because of his financial situations. John Brown had gave free land to the African Americans, because he hated slavery so much that he wanted to do

Martin wanted change to happen but without violence having to occur. Martin Luther King just wanted equality for all men and women and in this letter he shows his feelings towards the unequal and unjust things that were happening at the time. The