THE ROARING 20S 1920 1929
1920S AMERICAN CULTURE
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Hughes was a baseball player who became America’s first celebrity athlete
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Hughes was a radio talk show host who used the radio for the advancement of civil rights
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Langston Hughes was a famous jazz musician
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Langston Hughes was a jazz-poet and writer during the Harlem Renaissance.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Langston Hughes was a central figure in the Harlem Renaissance, the flowering of black intellectual, literary, and artistic life that took place in the 1920s in a number of American cities, particularly Harlem. A major poet, Hughes also wrote novels, short stories, essays, and plays.
Detailed explanation-2: -James Mercer Langston Hughes (February 1, 1901 – May 22, 1967) was an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist from Joplin, Missouri. One of the earliest innovators of the literary art form called jazz poetry, Hughes is best known as a leader of the Harlem Renaissance.
Detailed explanation-3: -Langston Hughes (1902-1967) is known as the leader of the Harlem Renaissance, which spanned the 1920s. He is also considered the father of jazz poetry, which burgeoned into the beat movement of the 1950s. His long, deeply influential career stems from being a voice of the people.
Detailed explanation-4: -When he wrote about jazz, Hughes often incorporated syncopated rhythms, jive language, or looser phrasing to mimic the improvisatory nature of jazz; in other poems, his verse reads like the lyrics of a blues song. The result was as close as you could get to spelling out jazz.