Langston Hughes #1237

Caption from poster__       " Cross "  My old man's a white old man And my old mother's black. If ever I cursed my white old man I take my curses back. If ever I cursed my black old mother And wished she were in hell, I'm sorry for that evil wish And now I wish her well My old man died in a fine big house. My ma died in a shack. I wonder were I'm going to die, Being neither white nor black?           Langston Hughes was an American poet and central figure of the Harlem Renaissance born in Joplin, Missouri.  He graduated from Lincoln University in 1929.  He worked at a variety of jobsand lived in several countries, including Mexico and France, before Vachel Lindsay discovered his poetry in 1925.  The publication of The Weary Blues in 1926 (his first volume of poetry) enabled Hughes to attend Lincoln University in Pennsylvania, from which his writing (which often uses dialect and jazz rhythms) is largely concerned with depicting African American life; particularly, the experience