| 1901/02/01 |
James Mercer Langston Hughes is born in Joplin, Missouri. |
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Joplin, MO |
Missouri |
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| 1921/09/04 |
Langston Hughes arrives in Manhattan, NYC, spending his first night in an expensive hotel in Times Square. "I had come to New York to enter Columbia College as a freshman, but really why I had come to New York was to see Harlem." - LH |
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Times Square |
New York City |
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| 1921/09/04 |
"That night I went to the Lincoln Theater across Lenox Avenue where maybe one of the Smiths - Bessie, Clara, Trixie, or Mamie - was singing the blues." - Langston Hughes |
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Lincoln Theatre, Harlem, NYC |
New York City |
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| 1921/09/05 |
Walking from the subway at 135th and Lenox, Langston rents a fourth-floor room at the Harlem YMCA for $7 a week. |
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YMCA Jackie Robinson Youth Center, NYC |
New York City |
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| 1921/09/05 |
At the Harlem Branch Library just up the street. There, a warm and wonderful librarian, Miss Ernestine Roe, white, made new comers feel welcome, as did her assistant in charge of the Schomburg Collection, Catherine Latimer, a luscious cafe au lait. - LH |
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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture |
New York City |
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| 1921/09/07 |
And as soon as I could, I made a beeline for Shuffle Along, the all-colored hit musical playing on 63rd Street in which Florence Mills came to fame. - LH |
Audience member |
Shuffle Along |
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| 1921/09/11 |
The 12 black students at Columbia are not allowed to live in the dorms. Since Hughes had made his request from Mexico, the housing depart did not realize his race. Hugh proves his deposit had been accepted and takes a 1st floor room in Hartley Hall. |
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Hartley Hall at Columbia Unv |
New York City |
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| 1921/11/00 |
Langdon Hughes discovers Columbia College has not received his tuition payment and is granted an extension. The $532 payment finally arrives in November. |
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Columbia University, Morningside |
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| 1922/05/00 |
After finishing his exams in May, Langdon Hughes quits Columbia College and moves to a boardinghouse in Harlem. |
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| 1926/00/00 |
Hurston and Hughes establish the short-lived but influential black literary journal Fire!! |
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Harlem, NYC |
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| 1934/00/00 |
"Cora Unashamed" by Langston Hughes is included in his story collection, 'The Ways of White Folks'. |
Author |
Cora Unashamed (short story) |
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| 1934/00/00 |
Langston Hughes's collection of short stories, The Ways of White Folks, is published in 1934. Hughes wrote the book during a year he spent living in Carmel, California. |
Author |
The Ways of White Folks (short story collection) |
Carmel-by-the-Sea |
California |
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| 1947/00/00 |
Home of Langston Hughes, 1947-1967. Mr Hughes writing room was on the third floor. |
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Langston Hughes House |
New York City |
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| 1953/03/24 |
Langston Hughes testifies before the US Senate Subcommittee on Investigations. |
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McCarthyism |
| 1958/00/00 |
"Thank You, Ma'am" is published. |
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Thank You, M'am (short story) |
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| 1967/05/22 |
Langston Hughes dies in the Stuyvesant Polyclinic in New York City from complications after abdominal surgery related to prostate cancer. His ashes are interred beneath a floor medallion in the foyer of the new Schomburg Center building. |
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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture |
New York City |
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