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.