1902

This timeline starts on February 1 1902 when James Mercer Langston Hughes was born in Joplin, Missouri, second child of Carrie Langston Hughes and James Hughes

1903-1907

His parents separated and Langston Hughes move home repeatedly staying with relatives and friends

1907-1915

Hughes lived with his grandmother, Mary Sampson Patterson Leary Langston, in Lawrence, Kansas, and briefly with his mother in Topeka, Kansas.

1915-1920

During this period he lives with his mother in Lincoln, Illinois, and in Cleveland, Ohio where he attended high school where he graduated on June 16, 1920

1920-1921

Langston Hughes lives with his father in Toluca, Mexico

1924

Langston enrolls at Columbia University in September study engineering as agreed with is father but becomes involved with writers in Harlem and publishes "The Negro Speaks of Rivers". He drops out of Columbia University travels to Africa, Holland, and Paris. In November 1924, Hughes returned to the U. S. to live with his mother in Washington, D.C.

1925

Hughes wins the Opportunity magazine poetry contest for "The Weary Blues"

1926

The Weary Blues is published by Alfred Knopf and Hughes enrolls in Lincoln University, a HBCU in Chester County, Pennsylvania

1927

Hughes second book of poems, Fine Clothes to the Jew, is published by Alfred Knopf

1929

Hughes receives a B.A. degree from Lincoln University

1930

Hughes publishes his novel, Not Without Laughter, The Dream Keeper and Other Poems

1932

He goes to the Soviet Union to make a film depicting the plight of many blacks living in the United States

1934

The Ways of White Folks, a collection of short stories, is published

1935

Hughes's play, "Mulatto," opens on Broadway

1937

Langston Hughes travels to Spain as a correspondent for the Baltimore Afro-American and other various African American newspapers

1941

Hughes establishes his theatre troupe in Los Angeles and publishes The Big Sea, his first autobiography

1943

Hughes begins writing columns for the Chicago Defender.

1949

He spent three months at the integrated University of Chicago Laboratory Schools as a "Visiting Lecturer on Poetry"

1950

Simple Speaks His Mind, a collection of short fiction, is published.

1951

Hughes publishes Montage of a Dream Deferred, a collection of poetry.

1956

I Wonder As I Wander, Hughes's second autobiography, is published.

1960

The NAACP awardS Langston Hughes the Spingarn Medal for distinguished achievements by an African American

1961

Hughes was inducted into the National Institute of Arts and Letters and publishes Ask Your Mama: Twelve Moods for Jazz, a collection of poetry

1967

Hughes Died May 22, 1967 (aged 65) in New York, United States
Hughes' Panther and the Lash was posthumously published

1973

The first Langston Hughes Medal was awarded by the City College of New York.

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