the life of langston hughes by arnold rampersad

In 1926, Hughes he enrolled in Lincoln University ( Pennsylvania) and earned a liberal arts degree in 1930. Woodson, the founder of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History. In 1925, he became the personal assistant of historian Carter G. He also briefly lived in the expatriate community in London, England before returning to the United States in November 1924 to live with his mother in Washington, D.C. In 1922, he began a two-year stint as a ship’s crewman, during which he traveled to, and spent considerable time in, western Africa, France, and Italy. Hughes quit Columbia after a year and decided to acquire a more worldly education. Rather than acquiesce to his domineering father’s demands that he pursue a degree in mining engineering, Langston moved to New York City, New York and enrolled in Columbia University. Langston Hughes joined his father in Mexico City briefly in 1919, moved back to Cleveland to complete high school, and then upon receiving his diploma in 1920, returned to Mexico City. He also had a volatile relationship with his attorney father who pursued work in Cuba and who by 1920 was general manager of an American company in Mexico. When his mother and brother followed his stepfather who occasionally left the family in search of higher wages, Langston stayed in Cleveland to finish high school. Hughes was fiercely independent from an early age. The couple settled in Cleveland, Ohio with Langston and his younger brother, Gwyn.

After his grandmother’s death, Caroline married Homer Clark, a steel mill worker in Lincoln, Illinois.

Mary Langston was the second wife of Charles Henry Langston, a major black political activist in Kansas, and the sister-in-law of former U.S. His parents separated before Langston was born and he spent his pre-adolescent years with his maternal grandmother, Mary Patterson Langston, in Lawrence, Kansas. Poet, novelist, playwright, librettist, essayist, and translator, James Mercer Langston Hughes was born in Joplin, Missouri on February 1, 1902, to parents Caroline (Carrie) Mercer Langston, a school teacher, and James Nathaniel Hughes, an attorney.

The life of langston hughes by arnold rampersad