Letters from Langston: From the Harlem Renaissance to the Red Scare and Beyond by Langston Hughes edited

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Overview: Langston Hughes, one of America's greatest writers, was an innovator of jazz poetry and a leader of the Harlem Renaissance whose poems and plays resonate widely today. Content: Foreword by Robin D. G. Kelley Preface Acknowledgments Introduction: The Poet, the Crawfords, and the Pattersons PART ONE: THE TUMULTUOUS 1930S 1 * Wither White Philanthropy-Thank You and God for "The Weary Blues": October 1930-January 1932 2 * Moscow Bound in Black and White: March 1932-February 1933 3 * Horror in Scottsboro, Alabama, and War in Spain: May 1933-November 1937 4 * A People's Theatre in Harlem and Black Anti-Fascism on the Rise: January 1938-December 1939 PART TWO: THE FAR-REACHING 1940S 5 * Early Political Repression: January 1940- November 1941 6 * World War II and Black Radical Organizing: June 1942-July 1944 7 * Ebb and Flow-To Chicago, New York, San Francisco, and Back: July 1946- November 1949 PART THREE: THE FEARSOME 1950S AND THE PROMISING 1960S 8 * McCarthyism at Home, Independence Movements Abroad: July 1950-December 1959 9 * Civil Rights, Black Arts, and the People's Poet: February 1961-August 1966 Glossary Personae Index