![]() In November 1924, he moved to Washington, D.C. He also traveled to Africa and Europe working as a seaman. During this time, he worked as an assistant cook, a launderer, and a busboy. It was in Lincoln that Hughes began writing poetry.Īfter graduating from high school, he spent a year in Mexico followed by a year at Columbia University. ![]() He then moved to Lincoln, Illinois, to live with his mother and her husband, before the family eventually settled in Cleveland. He was raised by his maternal grandmother, Mary Sampson Patterson Leary Langston, who was nearly seventy when Hughes was born, until he was thirteen. Hughes’s birth year was revised from 1902 to 1901 after new research from 2018 uncovered that he had been born a year earlier. His parents, James Nathaniel Hughes and Carrie Langston Hughes, divorced when he was a young child, and his father moved to Mexico. ![]() James Mercer Langston Hughes was born on February 1, 1901, in Joplin, Missouri. ![]()
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