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African American Voices.Conneticutt:The Millbrook Press, 1995 Adventures in American Literature. Chicago: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc., 1980 . We Too Sing America. G. Casey Cassidy.Online. Yale New Haven Teachers . The Influence of Musical Folk Traditions in th ....

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.... As a lonely child Hughes turned to reading and writing, publishing his first poems while in high school in Cleveland, Ohio. In 1921 he entered Columbia University, but left after an unhappy year. Even as he worked as a delivery man, a messmate on ships to Africa and Europe, a busboy, and a dishwasher, his poetry appeared regularly in such magazines as The Crisis (NAACP) and Opportunity (National Urban League).1 As a poet, Hughes was the first person to combine the traditional poetry with black artistic forms, especially blues and jazz. As a leader in the Harlem Renaissance of the twenties and thirties Hughes became the movements best known ....