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{"value"=>"20706", "type"=>"local_mss"}
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{"value"=>"1926-1967", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1926/1967"}
- unittitle
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{"value"=>"Langston Hughes collection"}
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- repository
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{"value"=>"<span class=\"corpname\">Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division</span>"}
- abstract
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{"value"=>"Langston Hughes was a poet, author, playwright, and songwriter. This collection represents the vertical file holdings of the Schomburg as of September 1, 1971, and includes personal and professional material."}
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{"value"=>"English"}
{"value"=>"In multiple languages."}
- origination
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{"value"=>"Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967", "type"=>"persname"}
- bioghist
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{"value"=>"<p>Langston Hughes is one of the world's most wildly acclaimed Black writers. His writings included poems, plays, short stories, syndicated columns, biographies and two autobiographies, children's books, anthologies, histories, songs, and almost any other mode of literary expression. His works have been presented on the stage and screen, radio and television, and on phonograph recordings by some of the greatest artists of our times.</p> <p>Born in Joplin, Missouri, on February 1, 1902, Langston Hughes grew up in Kansas, Missouri, and Ohio. His literary career began as class poet in the eighth grade and continued at Cleveland's Central High School where he was a member of the school magazine staff and editor of the class yearbook. His first poem to be published in a national magazine, \"The Negro Speaks of Rivers\", appeared in <span class=\"title\">The Crisis</span> in 1921. He was awarded <span class=\"title\">Opportunity</span> Magazine's First Prize in Poetry in 1925 for his work \"The Weary Blues\", which was later used as the title for his first book of poems.</p> <p>Hughes did not enjoy his first experience at college so he dropped out of Columbia University and hopped a freighter to parts unknown. After a few months in Africa, France, and Italy, he returned to the states and enrolled at Lincoln University (Pennsylvania). It was during this time that his talents came to the attention of the eminent poet Vachel Lindsay who was so immediately impressed by Hughes's work that he read three of Hughes's poems on a program in which he was participating at the Little Theatre of the Wardman Park Hotel in Washington. Hughes was working at the hotel as a busboy at the time. When he graduated from Lincoln University in 1929, he had won the Palms Intercollegiate Poetry Award and in 1931, he received the Harmon Gold Award for Literature. Dr. Charles A. Beard included him in his selection of America's 25 most \"interesting personages with a socially conscious attitude.\" On October 24, 1935, Hughes's first play, <span class=\"title\">Mulatto</span>, opened at the Vanderbilt Theatre on Broadway and that same year he received a Guggenheim Fellowship. Over the years he had his short stories, poems, and articles published in such magazines as <span class=\"title\">The New Yorker</span>, <span class=\"title\">Theatre Arts</span>, <span class=\"title\">The Saturday Evening Post</span>, <span class=\"title\">Esquire</span>, <span class=\"title\">Ebony</span>, and <span class=\"title\">The Nation</span>. He wrote weekly columns which appeared in the <span class=\"title\">Chicago Defender</span> and the <span class=\"title\">New York Post</span>. His wide acclaim as a writer put him in great demand on the national and international lecture circuit.</p> <p>Hughes wrote for radio, motion pictures, Broadway revues, and musical numbers; and for artists such as Marian Anderson, Lawrence Tibbett, and Muriel Rahn. During the war, he created several radio scripts for the Writers' War Board and composed a ballad opera for the British Broadcasting Company. He wrote the lyrics for the Broadway musical <span class=\"title\">Street Scene</span> and the librettoes for the operas <span class=\"title\">Troubled Island</span> and <span class=\"title\">The Barrier</span>.</p> <p>In addition to the Guggenheim Fellowship, Hughes received other awards including a Rosenwald Fellowship, 1941; American Academy of Arts and Letters grant, 1946; the National Association for the Advancement for Colored People's Spingarn Medal, 1960; and membership in the National Institute of Arts and Letters, 1961. In addition to <span class=\"title\">Mulatto</span>, Hughes also wrote the plays <span class=\"title\">Don't You Want to Be Free</span>, <span class=\"title\">Simply Heavenly</span>, <span class=\"title\">Shakespeare in Harlem</span>, <span class=\"title\">Black Nativity</span>, <span class=\"title\">Tambourines to Glory</span>, and <span class=\"title\">Jericho Jim Crow</span>.</p> <p>At the time of his death in 1967, Hughes had 25 titles listed in <span class=\"title\">Books in Print</span> and his works have been translated into French, Italian, Spanish, Swedish, Chinese, and Japanese. He was one of the nation's truly outstanding literary figures whose work was equally popular throughout the world.</p>"}
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{"value"=>"<p>This collection consists of biographical information about Hughes's life and activities; his writing; professional appearances; printed matter; and some information on sources of Hughes's material in other institutions in the United States.</p>"}
{"value"=>"<p class='list-head'>The Langston Hughes collection is arranged in seven series:</p>\n<ul class='arrangement series-descriptions'>\n<li><div class='series-title'><a href='/scm/20706#c1614570'>Biographical</a></div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>This series includes all material dealing with Langston Hughes's life and activities. It consists primarily of articles about the writer, biographical sketches, human interest stories, and obituaries. Many of the items are in foreign languages and thus illustrate the international popularity and acceptance which Hughes enjoyed.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/scm/20706#c1614571'>Writing</a></div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>This series is the largest group of records in the collection. It consists of bibliographies, manuscripts, typescripts, and drafts of writing as well as reviews of some of the published works. It has been subdivided into eleven subseries based on the different forms of literary expression represented. There is some overlap in the subseries as in cases where a particular item would logically fit into one of several catagories.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/scm/20706#c1614653'>Programs</a></div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>This series consists of material relating to programs, activities, and events in which Langston Hughes participated or was the subject.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/scm/20706#c1614667'>Works presented</a></div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>This series contains material related to programs which included a presentation of Hughes's works. It is primarily composed of clippings, announcements, printed programs, leaflets, and other such records announcing or describing the programs.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/scm/20706#c1614671'>Material in other libraries</a></div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>This series contains information on sources of Hughes's material in other institutions across the country.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/scm/20706#c1614679'>Criticism</a></div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>This series is a very small file and contains a few, very general, criticisms of Hughes as a writer.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/scm/20706#c1614680'>Miscellaneous</a></div>\n</li></ul>\n", "type"=>"arrangement"}
- arrangement
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{"value"=>"<p>Organized into seven series: I. Biographical; II. Writing; III. Programs; IV. Works presented; V. Material in other libraries; VI. Criticism; and VII. Miscellaneous.</p>", "supress_display"=>true}
- acqinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>Gift of Langston Hughes.</p>"}
- processinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>Processed by Stanton F. Biddle and Paul Williams with the assistance of New York Urban Corps Intern Claire Harley, 1972.</p>"}
- accessrestrict
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{"value"=>"<p>Researchers are restricted to microfilm copy.</p>"}
- relatedmaterial
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{"value"=>"<p>Langston Hughes collection : additions, Sc MG 129, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture</p>"}
- revisiondesc
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{"value"=>"Finding aid updated by Lauren Stark.", "date"=>"2021 January 28"}
- date_start
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1926
- keydate
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1926
- date_end
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1967
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1926
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1967
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0.25 linear feet (4 reels)
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{"value"=>"[Item], Langston Hughes collection, Sc Micro R-977, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, The New York Public Library"}