USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -He lived briefly with his father in Mexico in 1919. Upon graduating from high school in June 1920, Hughes returned to Mexico to live with his father, hoping to convince him to support his plan to attend Columbia University.

Detailed explanation-2: -Hughes lived and worked on the top floor of the rowhouse at 20 East 127th Street from 1947 to 1967, the last 20 years of his life. The building was owned by Emerson and Ethel Harper, a couple he had met in the 1930s and whom he considered his adopted uncle and aunt.

Detailed explanation-3: -n December 1934, the poet Langston Hughes went to Mexico City to wrap up the business affairs of his late father, James, only to discover that he had been disinherited. Father and son had had a difficult relationship.

Detailed explanation-4: -His father moved to Mexico, and his mother left him for long periods of time in search of steady employment. Hughes’s grandmother raised him in Lawrence, Kansas, until he was 12, when he moved to Illinois to live with his mother and stepfather.