Influence_Of_History_On_Langston_Hughes

Influence Of History On Langston Hughes Langston Hughes is considered by many as one of the greatest poets of all time. Living through many different events, Hughes has written a great variety of poems. Hughes career began to flourish in the decade of the 1920s, widely known as “the Roaring Twenties.” During the 1930s, Hughes experienced the difficulties of the Great Depression and lived through the joys of the Harlem Renaissance. His whole life, Hughes was constantly faced with racism and prejudice, which was common during the twenties and thirties. Langston Hughes was greatly influenced by the “Roaring Twenties”, the Great Depression, the Harlem Renaissance, and racism and prejudice in 1926-1936 when he wrote selected poems. The “Roaring Twenties” was a time of prosperity for America where people used their wealth to get away from traditional ideas and inhibitions. Using this new wealth and prosperity, some people made donations to the Ku Klux Klan. In the twenties, the Ku Klux Klan grew to an incredible size performing different acts of violence against Catholics, blacks, Jews, and radicals. The rapid growth of the KKK was one of the effects of the “Roaring Twenties”(Pietrusza 43-44). Being of black decent, the Ku Klux Klan revival had a great impact hughes, poem, twenties, great, depression, roaring, renaissance, langston, harlem, ku, klux, jazz, hughes’, america, racism, life, klan, during, blues, black, wrote, works, poems, music, events, effects, common, blacks, strikes, strike, influenced, called, work, violence