Langston Hughes, Prolific Writer Of Black Pride During The Harlem Renai

During a time where racism was at its height in America, Jim Crow laws disjunct blacks from mainstream white society. Where the notion of separate but equal was widely accepted in America, blacks were faced with adversity that they had to overcome in a race strict society. They were forced to face a system that compromised their freedom and rights. Blacks knew that equal was never equal and separate was definitely separate (George 8-9). Blacks had to fight for their rights because it wasnt handed to them. racism manifested itself on many levels and had to be fought on many levels. This gave rise to influential black leading in the fight for civil rights. Langston Hughes was one of those black leaders who arose during the Harlem Renaissance. He gave his people a voice and encouraged pride and hope through his literary work, to overcome racial discrimination.Langston Hughes lived during the time of the Harlem Renaissance, an African American pagan movement of the early 1920s and 1 930s that was centered in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City. It also came to be known as the New Negro movement, tag the first time that mainstream publishers and critics took African American literature seriously and that African American literature and arts attracted significant attention from the nation at large. Although it was in general a literary movement, it was closely related to developments in African American music, theater, art, and politics. This was also the time of the Great Migration, where more blacks were migrating from the rural South to the urban North, to look to better jobs and lives for their families (George 62). This new identity blacks to gain a new social consciousness and opportunity that was not available ... ...a fifty seven story noted historic landmark building in New York. Ive been a singer All the way from Africa to Georgia I carried my sorrow songs. There read been many famous black singers who have made a name for themselves. Singin g songs of the blues, gospel etc. telling their stories through melodies and soul. Ive been a dupe The Belgians cut off my hands in the Congo. They lynch me still in Mississippi. Here Hughes shows that blacks have been objects of violent hate. But at the end of the poem Hughes repeats I am a Negro Black as the night is black, black like the depths of my Africa. This shows that although blacks have been treated in ways in which no humankind should be treated. We still kept moving forward never giving up hope and faith, that a change would come. We have accomplished many things in our past and we can use this to motivate our future.