Langston Hughes Many poets are well recognized for their poems and live as they lived, but one poet is not all that well known. This poet had a hard life living in persecution just because of the color of his skin. The famous but forgotten Langston Hughes had an exciting career and intense writings during the era of segregation in which he lived. Langston Hughes traveled all over the world, which made his career very exciting, even though it started slowly, and once it started, it took off very quickly. Langston Hughes moved from Missouri to Illinois and then to Ohio. He spent time in Mexico, France, New York, Africa, the Soviet Union, and Washington D.C., where he began his writing career and won his first award (Langston Hughes). In Lincoln Ohio Langston began writing and after high school he went to Columbia University in New York then to Lincoln University in Pennsylvania. Hughes attended grammar school and wrote in his spare time. While in Washington D.C. he became a waiter at a hotel where he met the poet Vachel Lindsay and gave him three of his poems. Vachel then wrote about a "negro waiter poet" he had met in the capital; this is where Hughes' career began. The three poems he gave to Vachel Lindsay were published so he decided to start a career without writing. Langston Hughes attended three colleges during which he was treated poorly by whites during the segregation era (Constankisis). While in college Hughes was harassed by police, beaten by whites, and, of course, separated from whites in public places. These events inspired some of his writings such as "Ku Klux", "Who but the Lord", and "Ways of the White Folks". These poems describe the brutality and problems that African Americans faced... middle of paper... as. “The Sounds of Black Laughter and the Harlem Renaissance: Claude McKay, Sterling Brown, Langston Hughes.” American Literature 80.1 (March 2008): 57-81. Print.Constankisis, Sarah. "Langston Hughes." Poetry for students. New York: Gale, 1979. . Print.Kochar, Shubhanku. “Revisiting AW Grimke: Unleashing Stored Energy.” Language in India October 2012: 403+. Academic OneFile. Network. April 23, 2014. “Langston Hughes.” . Poetry.com and Web. February 23, 2014. .Nielson, Erik. "A 'High Voltage' in Langston Hughes's Musical Verses." MELUS 37.4 (2012): 165+. General OneFile. Network. 23 April 2014. "The streets of white people". Langston Hughes: A Study in Short Fiction. Hans A. Ostrom. New York: Twayne Publishers, 1993. 3-18. Twayne's studies on short fiction 47. Twayne's authors on GVRL. Network. April 23. 2014.