Langston Hughes

CTL-E-0338 · Person · unspecified

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Harlem-based writer whose weekly Chicago Defender column carried his Harlem workingman character Jesse B. Semple to a national Black readership for decades. Harlem Renaissance writer who co-translated Nicolás Guillén into English in 1948 while writing a weekly column for the Chicago Defender (1942–62), giving the translation a Chicago Black-press conduit.

Notes

Merged into canonical KG 2026-10-03 from GLOBAL-001; source entity IDs: CTL-DR-GLOBAL-001:GBL-009; source research type(s): Person. Era not present in source research record(s); marked unspecified pending human review.

Sources

The Collected Works of Langston Hughes / Simple scholarship University of Missouri Press MUP
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