Du Bois (Sociologist, Civil Rights activist, writer, and editor), Duke Ellington (Big Band Musician, composer, pianist), Bessie Smith (American blues singer and songwriter), Zora Neale Hurston (American short story writer, autobiographer, novelist, and folklorist), and of course Langston Hughes, along with many many more. ... It was there that he developed an extreme interest in Soviet Communism and Joseph Stalin, which led him to write on politics all through the 1930's. ...

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