Langston Hughes
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Bibliography

"Langston Hughes." Kansas Heritage Group. 1 August 2011.

"Langston Hughes.” Poetry Foundation. 1 August 2011.

Nelson, Carl. "Langston Hughes." University of Illinois. 1 August 2011.

Weaver, Afaa M. "Langston Hughes.” Poets.org . 1 August 2011.

Websites

IMDB

Poetry Foundation

Red Hot Jazz

Books

The Weary Blues (1926)

Fine Clothes to the Jew (1927)

The Negro Mother and Other Dramatic Recitations (1931)

The Dream Keeper (1932)

Let America Be America Again (1938)

The Big Sea: An Autobiography (1940)

Shakespeare in Harlem (1942)

Freedom's Plow (1943)

Fields of Wonder (1947)

One-Way Ticket (1949)

Simple Speaks His Mind (1950)

Montage of a Dream Deferred (1951)

Laughing to Keep from Crying (1952)

Simple Takes a Wife (1953)

Famous American Negroes (1954)

Sweet Flypaper of Life (1955)

A Pictorial History of the Negro in America (1956)

I Wonder as I Wander: An Autobiographical Journey (1956)

Selected Poems of Langston Hughes (1958)

Famous Negro Heroes of America (1958)

Tambourines to Glory: A Novel (1958)

Ask Your Mama: 12 Moods for Jazz (1961)

The Best of Simple (1961)

Fight for Freedom: The Story of the NAACP (1962)

Something in Common and Other Stories (1963)

Simple's Uncle Sam (1965)

The Panther and the Lash: Poems of Our Times (1967)

Not Without Laughter (1969)

Plays

Mule Bone (1931)

Troubled Island (1936)

Little Ham (1936)

Don't You Want to be Free? (1938)

Tambourines to Glory (1956)

Simply Heavenly (1957)

Black Nativity (1961)

Five Plays by Langston Hughes (1963)

Jericho-Jim Crow (1964)

Movies Based on Works by Langston Hughes

Way Down South (1939)

Black Nativity (1962)

Cora Unashamed (2000)

Salvation (2003)