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James Mercer Langston Hughes was an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist from Joplin, Missouri. He moved to New York City as a young man, where he made his career. One of the earliest innovators of the then-new literary art form called jazz poetry, Hughes is best known as a leader of the Harlem Renaissance. He famously wrote about the period that "the negro was in vogue", which was later paraphrased as "when Harlem was in vogue."
Birth Name
James Mercer Langston Hughes
Born
Saturday, 01 February 1902
Died
Monday, 22 May 1967
Actor Filmography
Title | Character | Year |
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Uncle Tom II: An American Odyssey | Self | 2022 |
Hemingway | Self - Writer | 2021 |
By Whatever Means Necessary: The Times of Godfather of Harlem | Self - Poet & Novelist / Self - Writer, Poet and Activist | 2020 |
What Happened, Miss Simone? | Self | 2015 |
The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. | Self | 2013 |
Classical Baby (I'm Grown Up Now): The Poetry Show | 2008 | |
Looking for Langston | Himself (archive footage) / Self | 1989 |
The Subject Is Jazz | Self | 1958 |
Actor Filmography
Title | Character | Year |
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Uncle Tom II: An American Odyssey | Self | 2022 |
Hemingway | Self - Writer | 2021 |
By Whatever Means Necessary: The Times of Godfather of Harlem | Self - Poet & Novelist / Self - Writer, Poet and Activist | 2020 |
What Happened, Miss Simone? | Self | 2015 |
The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. | Self | 2013 |
Classical Baby (I'm Grown Up Now): The Poetry Show | 2008 | |
Looking for Langston | Himself (archive footage) / Self | 1989 |
The Subject Is Jazz | Self | 1958 |