Langston Hughes: Poems

Which of these best describes Hughes’s writing

After graduating from high school Hughes studied for a year at Columbia university in new York city he published his first poem the Negro speaks of rivers in 1921 Hughes quickly became one of the most important writers of the Harlem Renaissance the movement of African-Americans literary artistic and musical culture in the 1920s he was the first African-American to make a living as a writer Hughes was born for telling the story of black Americans in authentic ways his work reflected to the diversity of African Americans language relationships suffering joy and love of music he wrote about discrimination in America and how it affected people and his communities he used simple language and things that could be understood by anyone who could read

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Hughes frequently used his poetry to convey messages of racial justice and democracy. His distinct poetic voice celebrated the folkways, history, and daily lives of African Americans during the early 20th Century.

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