Living
- 1926: Hughes won the Witter Bynner Undergraduate Poetry Prize.[112]
- 1935: Hughes was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, which allowed him to travel to Spain and Russia.
- 1941: Hughes was awarded a fellowship 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.[113]
- 1963: Howard University awarded Hughes an honorary doctorate.
- 1964: Western Reserve University awarded Hughes an honorary Litt.D.
Memorial
- 1978: the first Langston Hughes Medal was awarded by the City College of New York. [114]
- 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″N 73°56′26″W / 40.80722°N 73.94056°W / 40.80722; -73.94056) by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission and 127th Street was renamed "Langston Hughes Place".[115] The Langston Hughes House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.[116]
- 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.[117]
- 2009: Langston Hughes High School was created in Fairburn, Georgia.
- 2012: inducted into the Chicago Literary Hall of Fame.[118]
- 2015: Google Doodle commemorated his 113th birthday.[119]
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