Langston Hughes
Langston Hughes was born in the Midwest. He spent a year at Columbia University and then worked on tramp steamships in Africa and Europe. After finishing college at Lincoln University, he traveled to Cuba, Haiti and Russia. A participant in the Harlem Renaissance, he was good friends with Countee Cullen and Zora Neale Hurston. In the 1920s, Hughes worked for Carter Woodson in Washington, D.C. In celebration of Black History Month and Hughes' February birthday, Petworth Library has a display of books about Hughes and the Harlem Renaissance, including:

Big Sea: An Autobiography
Langston Hughes, American Poet

Art and Imagination of Langston Hughes
Collected Poems of Langston Hughes

Big Sea: An Autobiography
Langston Hughes, American Poet


Art and Imagination of Langston Hughes
Collected Poems of Langston Hughes
