Langston Hughes Impact On The Civil Rights Movement

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Langston Hughes was born in 1902 and became a significant contributor to the Harlem Renaissance in the 1920s. Hughes’ writings on the everyday life and experience of African Americans living in America had a strong impact on the Civil Rights Movement. His writings brought perspective and vision to a culture burdened by segregation, and an emotional understanding of what happened in the night life during the 1920s.

Langston Hughes wrote many poems, one of which is called “Young Prostitute”. This poem though short, described the brokenness of a “dark brown” girl. Hughes’ paints her as ruined flower and expressed how “cheap” those girls were in Harlem. The lack of obvious emotion in the words he wrote almost make the poem more heartbreaking to