THE ROARING 20S 1920 1929
ART AND CULTURE OF THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE
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the first black female writer
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the first black woman to graduate college
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the first black woman to attend Oberlin College
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the first black woman to become published
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Detailed explanation-1: -Hughes’ great-grandmother Mary Patterson Leary was one of the first women to enroll at Oberlin College. Lewis Sheridan Leary, a participant in John Brown’s attack on Harpers Ferry in 1859, was wedded to Leary. She has lineage through Native Americans, France, England, and Africa.
Detailed explanation-2: -Langston Hughes (1901–1967) was a poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, columnist, and a significant figure of the Harlem Renaissance. Born in Joplin, Missouri, Hughes was the descendant of enslaved African American women and white slave owners in Kentucky.
Detailed explanation-3: -Langston Hughes studied liberal arts at Lincoln University, a historically black college in Pennsylvania. He graduated with his Bachelor’s of Arts degree in 1929; shortly after he graduated, Hughes returned to Harlem, where he remained for most of the rest of his life.
Detailed explanation-4: -Langston Hughes, 1902 – 1967, was an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist from Joplin, Missouri. One of the earliest innovators of the art form called “Jazz Poetry. Hughes is best known as a leader of the Harlem Renaissance.