Jazz poetry

Langston Hughes was an African-American man that believed in freedom and non-racism. He was a poet and a very inspirational one at that. He was a very persistent person that would not stop writing even when he was sent to jail because of his race. He was born in Joplin, Missouri, on February 1, 1902, and died in 1967 in New York. Langston Hughes was influenced by three major things which are his family, the time period, and the places he lived.