James Nathaniel Hughes: Birthdate: September 16, 1871: Birthplace: Clark, Indiana, United States: Death: 1934 (62-63) Toluca de Lerdo, Mexico, Mexico Immediate Family: Son of James Henry Hughes and Emma Hughes Husband of Caroline Mercer Hughes Father of Langston Hughes and Ufn Hughes. In 1953, he was called before the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations led by Senator Joseph McCarthy. "Langston Hughes: Before and Beyond Harlem". It was in the verses of ‘Montage of a Dream’ that he looped his love for jazz music poetry. While he was an infant, his parents separated. His tuition provided, Hughes left his father after more than a year. Langston Hughes — known early in his career as “Poet Laureate of the Negro Race” and, now, as the preeminent poet of the Harlem Renaissance — was born James Mercer Langston Hughes in Joplin, Missouri to Carrie Langston and Charles Hughes. By employing Family Systems Theory for the first time in Hughes scholarship, they demonstrate that it is an essential heuristic for analyzing the Hughes family and its influence on his work. He died in New York at the age of 65. [66] Hughes believed his failure to gain more work in the lucrative movie trade was due to racial discrimination within the industry. [48] Hughes' life and work were enormously influential during the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s, alongside those of his contemporaries, Zora Neale Hurston,[49] Wallace Thurman, Claude McKay, Countee Cullen, Richard Bruce Nugent, and Aaron Douglas. The only way to get a thing done is to start to do it, then keep on doing it, and finally you'll finish it. I'm not as scared as I used to be about somebody taking me "Free Speech or Hate Speech: Pornography and its Means of Production". 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