Langston_Hughes&_The_Harlem_Renaissance

Langston Hughes& The Harlem Renaissance The Harlem Renaissance brought many great changes. It was time for the African American people to express their culture. Many famous people began their writing and gained recognition during that time. The Harlem Renaissance took place during the 1920’s and 1930’s. During that time many African Americans started showing their different talents. Music, poetry, jazz, blues and musical theater were flourishing for the African American in Harlem. The African American way of life was changing. The great migration of African Americans from the South to the North, and into Harlem was one of the causes of The Harlem Renaissance. Harlem became one of the largest African American communities in the United States and also a center for the arts and literature. Many great writers came during that period; one of them was Langston Hughes. Langston Hughes was a great writer, and with his works he influenced and inspired the people of Harlem. Langston Hughes was born in February 1, 1902 in Joplin Missouri, with the name of James Langston Hughes. (Haskins 14) He grew up without a stable family environment. His father moved to Mexico, and he never really spent time with his son. After Hughes graduation hughes, harlem, people, poetry, langston, great, african, time, white, renaissance, poet, poems, poem, young, during, america, works, part, black, americans, about, rummel, place, one, new, negro, haskins, american, make, jazz, depression, culture, blues, african-americans, something