James Mercer Langston Huhges was born February 1st 1902 in Joplin, Missouri. He was the second child of Carrie Mercer Langston and James Nathaniel Langston. Both of his parents were mixed races. And he didn't have a good relationship with hsi father. James Langston left his family and later divorced Carrie. He went to Cuba then to Mexico to escape the enduring racism in the United States, strainign Langston's and his relatonship. After the seperation of his parents, young Langston was raised mainly by hsi maternal grandmother Mary Langston in Kansas, as his mother souhgt employment. After the death of his grandmother, he went to live with family friends, James and Mary Reed, for two years.
Later, Hughes lived again with his mother Carrie in Lincoln, Illinois, who remarried when he was still and adolescent, and eventually in Cleveland, Ohio, where he attended high school. While in Grammar School in Lincoln he was elected class poet. During high school in Cleveland he wrote for the school paper, edited the yearbook, and began to write short stories, poems, and dramatic plays.
Langston Huhges worked various odd jobs before working as a crewman on the S.S. Malone in 1923. He spent half of a year aboard the S.S. Malone traveling to West Africa and Europe. Then left for a temporary stary in Paris. When he got back to the United States he got a job as a personal assistant for Carter G. Woodson at the Association for the Study of American Life and History.
During the 1940's Langston Hughes established his theatre group in Los Angeles. His ambition for writing movies grew when he co-wrote the movie Way Down South. Langston Hughes taught one semester at the mostly black Atlanta University.
During the mid-1950's and 1960's, Hughes popularity among the younger generation of black writers varied as his reputation increased worldwide. His work was inspired by the blues and jazz of that era.
Langston Huhges died because of prostate cancer. There was Langston Huhges Memorial Library built in his honor. His ashes are under the floor in Arthur Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.
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