Langston Hughes Papers
The Langston Hughes papers consist of a range of items chiefly pertinent to his career as a poet and playwright. Langston Hughes was born in 1901 in Joplin, Missouri to Caroline Leary Hughes. From 1903 to 1915 Hughes lived in Lawerence, Kansas with his grandmother Mary Langston. In 1915 he joined his mother in Illinois. The family then moved to…