Letters from Langston : from the Harlem Renaissance to the Red Scare and beyond / edited by Evelyn Louise Crawford and MaryLouise Patterson ; with a foreword by Robin D.G. Kelley.

Includes bibliographies and index.

"One of the greatest American writers, Langston Hughes was an innovator of jazz poetry and a leader of the Harlem Renaissance whose poems and plays resonate widely today. Accessible, personal, and inspirational, Hughes's poems portray the African American community in struggle in the context of a turbulent modern United States and a rising black freedom movement. This invaluable collection of newly published letters between Hughes and four confidantes sheds light on his life and politics. Letters from Langston begins in 1930 and ends shortly before his death in 1967, providing a window into a unique, self-created world where Hughes lived at ease. This distinctive volume of correspondence patches together stories of friends and family living in an era of uncertainty and their visions of an idealized world--one without hunger, war, racism, and class oppression"--Provided by publisher.

Thank you and God for "the weary blues": October 1930-January 1932 -- Moscow bound in black and white: March 1932-February 1933 -- Horror in Scottsboro, Alabama, and war in Spain: May 1933-November 1937 -- A people's theatre in Harlem and Black anti-fascism on the rise: January 1938-December 1939 -- Early political repression: January 1940-November 1941 -- World War II and black radical organizing: June 1942-July 1944 -- Ebb and flow: to Chicago, New York, San Francisco, and back: July 1946-November 1949 -- MCarthyism at home, independence movements abroad: July 1950-December 1959 -- Civil rights, Black arts, and the people's poet: February 1960-August 1966.

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