Langston Hughes papers,

Hughes, Langston,

Langston Hughes papers, - 30

Chiefly typewritten drafts of poems annotated and signed by Hughes. Poems include the Ballad of Booker T. (1941), Comment on War (1939), Note on Commercial Art (1939; later titled Note on Commercial Theatre), and Visitors to the Black Belt (1939). Includes correspondence with Marjorie Greene and others, a 1954 broadside program for "Vinnette Carroll in program of dramatic interpretations" signed by Hughes, and miscellaneous printed matter.


African Americans--Poetry.
African Americans--Attitudes.
African Americans--Race identity.
American poetry--African American authors.
Anti-war poetry.
Poetry.