#3557 Langston Hughes, Black Heritage Series
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Issued: Feb 1, 2002. 34¢ Langston Hughes, Black Heritage, Self-adhesive

When he was just eighteen years old, Langston Hughes wrote his first, and best-known, poem — “The Negro Speaks of Rivers.” Throughout his lifetime he continued to write poetry, news articles, books, short stories, and plays into which he incorporated poverty, prejudice, radical politics, violence, and social causes. He wrote the Broadway shows Mulattoand Street Scene, and two successful gospel shows, Black Nativity and Jericho-Jim Crow. (APS)

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