(ThyBlackMan.com) Langston Hughes, one of the most significant ... Hughes was inspired by the sight of the water and its historical significance. The poem connects the flow of rivers to the ...

In that time he was writing poems too, and a novel ... days' of the second Five Year Plan and in Spain in 1937, Langston Hughes' journey from 1930 to 1937 paralleled those of many writers and ...

Langston Hughes was known as a key figure in both literary and artistic spaces during the Harlem Renaissance era.