Langston Hughes

Langston Hughes’ “Visitors to the Black Belt” is about the ignorant and privileged worldviews that the oppressive white upper-class perpetuates about Black people’s lives and culture.

“Song for a Dark Girl” by Langston Hughes is a poem about the death of a young woman’s lover, who was lynched to death and hung up on a crossroads tree.

Langston Hughes’ poem “As I Grew Older” is about how a speaker had a dream and how it was difficult to achieve due to racial discrimination.