Works for Children and Young Adults: Biographies (The Collected Works of Langston Hughes)

The twelfth volume of The Collected Works of Langston Hughes contains Hughes's collections of biographies for children and young adults—Famous American Negroes, Famous Negro Music Makers, and Famous Negro Heroes of America—gathered together for the first time. In these works, Hughes sought to remedy decades of historical and cultural neglect by telling the stories of African Americans who had made vital contributions to the construction of the American identity.

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