The Langston Hughes Society is a United States-based literary society concerned with the work of
African American
African Americans (also referred to as Black Americans and Afro-Americans) are an ethnic group consisting of Americans with partial or total ancestry from sub-Saharan Africa. The term "African American" generally denotes descendants of ens ...
poet
Langston Hughes
James Mercer Langston Hughes (February 1, 1901 – May 22, 1967) was an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist from Joplin, Missouri. One of the earliest innovators of the literary art form called jazz poetry, Hug ...
. The society was the first national organization to be dedicated to the work of an African American writer.
Founded after the poet's death and in the wake of the Langston Hughes Study conference of 1981 by Hughes' literary assistant
George Houston Bass
George Houston Bass (April 23, 1938 – September 18, 1990) was an American playwright, director and writer. He lived and worked in Providence, Rhode Island. He founded the Rites and Reason Theater at Brown University in September 1970. He was a ...
, the society's official publication is the ''Langston Hughes Review'', published by Institute for African American Studies at
The University of Georgia.
The organisation also presents the ''Langston Hughes Award'' annually.
[Dolan Hubbard, ]
"Langston Hughes Society"
Organizing Black America: An Encyclopedia of African American Associations''.
References
Further reading
* Hubbard, Dolan. “Langston Hughes Society.” ''The Greenwood Encyclopedia of African American Literature'' (5 volumes). Ed. Hans Ostrom and Associate Ed. J. David Macey Jr. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2005. 3: 955–57.
* Deck, Alice A. “The Langston Hughes Society: Its Inaugural Year.” ''Langston Hughes Review'' 1, 2 (Fall 1982), 27–28.
* Berry, Faith. “The Universality of Langston Hughes.” ''Langston Hughes Review'' 1, 2 (Fall 1982), 1–10.
External links
Langston Hughes Society Website
Literary societies
Clubs and societies in the United States
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