Langston+Hughes

[|Teaching the Poems of Langston Hughes]

Langston Hughes was an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist. He was one of the earliest innovators of the then-new literary art form jazz poetry. Hughes is best known for his work during the Harlem Renaissance. [|Langston Hughes]

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Dream Deferred [|complete analysis of “What Happens to a Dream Deferred?”] [|The Weary Blues / Harlem], by Langston Hughes Scottsboro Boys Thank You Ma'am



**Justice** That Justice is a blind goddess

Is a thing to which we black are wise.

Her bandage hides two festering sores

That once perhaps were eyes. —Langston Hughes, from Scottsboro Limited

**The Town of Scottsboro** by //Langston Hughes// Scottsboro’s just a little place: No shame is writ across its face – Its court, too weak to stand against a mob, Its people’s heart, too small to hold a sob. 