{"value"=>"<p>These scrapbooks (1925-1961) are about poet, novelist, playwright, and activist Langston Hughes and contain clippings from a variety of both African American and mainstream newspapers. The clippings are primarily reviews and publicity for his works, including <span class=\"title\">The Dream Keeper</span>, <span class=\"title\">Fine Clothes to the Jew</span>, <span class=\"title\">The Weary Blues</span>, <span class=\"title\">The Negro Mother and Other Dramatic Recitations</span>, <span class=\"title\">Not Without Laughter</span>, <span class=\"title\">The Ways of White Folks</span>, <span class=\"title\">The Big Sea</span>, <span class=\"title\">The Negro Mother</span>, <span class=\"title\">Laughing to Keep from Crying</span>, <span class=\"title\">Fields of Wonder</span>, <span class=\"title\">Montage of a Dream Deferred</span>, <span class=\"title\">Simple Takes a Wife</span>, <span class=\"title\">Simple Speaks His Mind</span>, <span class=\"title\">Shakespeare in Harlem</span>, <span class=\"title\">Tambourines to Glory</span>, <span class=\"title\">I Wonder as I Wander</span>, and <span class=\"title\">Famous Negro Heroes in America</span>. Coverage also includes his work as lyricist for the musical <span class=\"title\">Street Scene</span>. Additional clippings include short interviews, poems, his trips to Cuba and Haiti, his support of far left radical politics, and his testimony before Senator Joseph McCarthy on his charges of being a communist.</p>"}