Columbia’s Overdue Apology to Langston Hughes

Editor's note:

Article orginally published by the New Yorker on December 23, 1967

 

August 17, 2020
Langston Hughes

"Seven months after the death of the Black writer, Professor James P. Shenton acknowledged at a memorial, “For a while, there lived a poet down the street from Columbia, and Columbia never took the time to find out what he was about.” Hunter-Gault

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Hunter-Gault, Charlayne, Columbia’s Overdue Apology to Langston Hughes. New York, NY, The New Yorker, December, 23, 1967

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