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Langston Hughes Timeline 1 - Timeline Help
Langston Hughes timeline part one of three from 1902 to 1931 at Timeline Help. The African-American Harlem Renaissance Poet Laureate of the Negro Race, novelist, short story writer, playwright, and columnist who celebrated black life and culture and condemned racism and injustice. Read about historical events in his life and find the titels of the famous author's most important novels, poems and plays in a chronological order brought together in this Langston Hughes timeline.
Langston Hughes Timeline 1
2 3 | - 1902 Feb 1
- 1903 - 1907
- 1907 - 1915
- 1915
- 1920 June 16
- 1920 - 1921
- 1921
- 1922
- 1924
- 1925
- 1926
- 1927
- 1929
- 1930
- 1931
| James Mercer Langston Hughes born in Joplin, Missouri, to James Hughes and Carrie Langston Hughes.
Parents separate and Langston and his mother stays with family members in Buffalo, Colorado, Indianapolis, Kansas, Mexico City, New York, and Lawrence.
Lived with grandmother Mary Sampson Patterson Leary Langston in Lawrence, Kansas. Lives with mother in Topeka, Kansas and Lincoln, Illinois.
Enrolls high school at Cleveland Central High, Ohio. Earliest poems published in the school magazine.
Graduates high school.
Lives with father James in Toluca, Mexico.
Enrolls at Columbia University to study engineering.
Drops out of university. Works at a shipyard in Jones Point. Sails to Africa, Holland, and Paris in France. Publishes The Negro Speaks of Rivers.
Returns to the US. Lives with his mother in Washington, D.C.
Writes The Weary Blues and becomes the winner of the Opportunity magazine poetry contest. Meets Zora Neale Hurston and Aaron Douglas.
Attends the HBCU (Historically Black Colleges and Universities) Lincoln University in Chester County, Pennsylvania. Awarded the Witter Bynner Prize for best poetry submitted by an American undergraduate. Langston sends in five poems, including The House in Taos. Publisher Alfred Knopf publishes The Weary Blues. The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain is published in The Nation.
Alfred Knopf publishes Langston's second book of poems, Fine Clothes to the Jew. Tours the Southern states with Zora Neale Hurston.
Receives his Bachelor's degree from Lincoln University.
Not Without Laughter, The Dream Keeper and Other Poems. Co-authors the play Mule Bone with Zora Neale Hurston.
Dear Lovely Death, The Negro Mother and Other Dramatic Recitations.
| Bibliography of Langston Hughes Timeline 1 Leach, L J (2004). Biography.
Rampersad, A (1986). The Life of LH. 1902-1941. I, Too, Sing America.
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