Langston Hughes' Role in the Harlem Renaissance? Langston Hughes (1902-1967) was born in Joplin, Missouri and educated at Lincoln University in Pennsylvania. He published his first poem, "The Negro Speaks of Rivers,"" in Crisis magazine in 1921 and studied at Columbia University from 1921 to 1922...

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