Langston Hughes Links
Photo-
This site has a great picture of Hughes.
http://www.150.si.edu/150trav/remember/r914.htm
This site has a few great pictures of Hughes.
http://langstonhughes.8m.com/
This site has a painting of Hughes by Winold Reiss.
www.150.si.edu/chap10/10man.htm
Biography-
This site contains a list of works plus a history of his life.
www.kirjasto.sci.fi/lhughes.htm
This is site by Andrew P. Jackson giving on outlook on Hughes life.
www.redhotjazz.com/hughes.html
This is a brief history on when he wrote things.
www.Encarta.msn.com/fina/concise.asp?ti=0133E000
This is a history of the places he lived and went to school and what happened to them.
www.poets.org/poets/poets.cfm?prmID=84&CFID=9015753&CFTOKEN=44555885
Hughes biography and works.
www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~daniel/amlit/reader/south/hughes.html
This is a biography and links to poetry and journal articles.
www.myhero.com/heroasp?hero=LangstonHughes
This site has a biography as well as links to everything from projects to videos on
Hughes.
www.poets.org/poets/poets.cfm?prmID=84&CFID=9180948&CFTOKEN=39039171
Another biography on Hughes.
www.galegroup.com/free_resources/bhm/bio/hughes_l.htm
A site on the life and times of Hughes.
http://members.aol.com/olatou/hughes.htm
A biography concerning the 100th Birthday Celebration of Poetry and Black America.
Whitaker, Charles. "Langston Hughes: 100th Birthday Celebration of the Poet
Laureate of Black America". Ebony. April 2002.
A Teacher Resource of Hughes.
www.falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/hughes.htm
Another biography, but this time by Arnold Rampersad.
www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/g_l/hughes/life.htm
Biographies from a classroom viewpoint.
www.college.hmco.com/english/heath/syllabuild/iguide/hughes.html
The poem "A Dream Deferred" plus a biography.
www.members.aol.com/o/atou/hughes.htm
The Official Publication of the Langston Hughes Society.
www.uga.edu/~iaas/LHR.html
An essay by Jeff Trussell.
Myhero.com/hero.asp?hero=langstonhughes
Reviews-
A review by Raymond Smith on the poem "Negro"
www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/g_l/hughes/negro.htm
A review of a few of Hughes works.
www.blockhead.comlhughes.htn
This site discusses the poem "A Dream Deferred".
http://members.aol.com/olatou/hughes.htm
A Review by Chow of a few works.
www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~daniel/amlit/reader/south/chowhughes.html
A review by Freeman.
www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~daniel/amlit/reader/south/freemanhughes.html
Reviews of Hughes early work from "The New York Times".
www.nytimes.com/books/01/04/22/specials/hughes.html
A review of a few of his poems.
www.americanwriters.org/writers/hughes_hurston.asp
In "The New York Times’ in May of 2002, there was this article.
Kinzer, Stephen. "Rescue Efforts Lift Poets’ Voices From Fraying Tapes".
New York Times. 16 May 2002. 2.
This is a review of the Political Plays by Hughes.
McCluskey Jr., John. "The Political Plays of Langston Hughes". American
Literature. March 2002.
This is a review by Carol Collins of the poem "I, too."
Collins, Carol. "I, Too, Sing America: The Story of Langston Hughes". School
Library Journal. May 2002.
A review by Heather Zadra on "Three Songs about Lynching".
http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/g_l/hughes/3songs.htm
"To Negro Writers" by Langston Hughes to other Black poets.
http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/g_l/hughes/negrowriters.htm
Review on a play based on Hughes short story "Cora Unshamed".
www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/americancollection/ cora/works.html
A Yale teacher, G. Casey Cassidy, wrote a paper on Hughes.
www.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/ units/1991/3/91.03.01.x.html
One last review to look at.
www.dup-usa.orglistbn/0195061691.html
Works-
Nine pages worth of Hughes poems
http://www.randomhouse.com/knopf/authors/hughes/poem.html
Ossie Davis reading a few selected poems.
www.town.hall.org/wgbh/masterpiece/Americancollection/Cora/works.html
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