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Honors and awards

• 1926: Hughes won the Witter Bynner Undergraduate Poetry Prize.
• 1935: Hughes was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, which allowed him to travel to Spain and Russia.
• 1941: Hughes was awarded a felowship from the Rosenwald Fund.
• 1943: Lincoln University awarded Hughes an honorary Litt.D.
• 1954: Hughes won the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award.
• 1960: the NAACP awarded Hughes the Spingarn Medal for distinguished achievements by an African American.
• 1961: National Institute of Arts and Letters.^[72]
• 1963: Howard University awarded Hughes an honorary doctorate.
• 1964: Western Reserve University awarded Hughes an honorary Litt.D.
• 1973: the first Langston Hughes Medal was awarded by the City College of New York.
• 1979: Langston Hughes Middle School was created in Reston, Virginia.
• 1981: New York City Landmark status was given to the Harlem home of Langston Hughes at 20 East 127th Street (40°48′26.32″N 73°56′25.54″W / 40.8073111°N 73.9404278°W / 40.8073111; -73.9404278) by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission and 127th St. was renamed Langston Hughes Place.^[73] The Langston Hughes House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.^[74]
• 2002: The United States Postal Service added the image of Langston Hughes to its Black Heritage series of postage stamps.
• 2002: scholar Molefi Kete Asante listed Langston Hughes on his list of 100 Greatest African Americans.^[75]