Langston Hughes Book

"The Weary Blues"     7
FYI: The Harlem Renaissance     10
Growing Up in Kansas     13
FYI: John Brown and Harpers Ferry     20
Northern Migration     23
FYI: The Influences of Sandburg and Whitman     32
"I've Known Rivers"     35
FYI: The NAACP     42
Sailing to Africa     45
FYI: Jim Crow and Lynching     52
Poet and Student     55
FYI: The Blues     62
Speaking to the South     65
FYI: Scottsboro     70
War and Death     73
FYI: Arna Bomtemps     80
The "Shakespeare of Harlem"     83
FYI: McCarthvism     88
"A Dream Deferred"     91
FYI: The Civil Rights Movement     96
Chronology     98
Selected Works     99
Timeline in History     101
Chapter Notes     103
Further Reading     107
Works Consulted     107
On the Internet     108
Glossary     109
Index     111