Langston Hughes
1901 to 1967
13 documented presences
12 places
Quo Fuit places 13 dated presences for Langston Hughes across 12 places, from 1901 to 1967. Each one keeps the sentence it was taken from and a link to its source.
James Mercer Langston Hughes (February 1, 1901 – May 22, 1967) was an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist from Joplin, Missouri.Wikipedia, full article · CC BY-SA
Where Langston Hughes was documented, and when
1901 to 1902period
Joplin, Missouriattested
“They had two children; the second was Langston Hughes, born in 1901 in Joplin, Missouri (though Hughes himself claims in his autobiography to have been born in 1902).”
source: Wikipedia: Langston Hughes
1919year
Mexicoattested
“He lived briefly with his father in Mexico in 1919.”
source: Wikipedia: Langston Hughes
June 1920month
Mexicoattested
“Upon graduating from high school in June 1920, Hughes returned to Mexico to live with his father, hoping to convince him to support his plan to attend Columbia University.”
source: Wikipedia: Langston Hughes
1922year
Rand Schoolattested
“Hughes preferred to visit Broadway productions and attend lectures at the Rand School, leading to him dropping out of Columbia in 1922.”
source: Wikipedia: Langston Hughes
23 July 1927exact date
Mobile, Alabamaattested
“During this travel Langston met, on July 23, 1927, Zora Neale Hurston on a Passenger Terminal in Mobile, Alabama.”
source: Wikipedia: Langston Hughes
1935year
Spainattested
“* 1935: Hughes was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, which allowed him to travel to Spain and Russia.”
source: Wikipedia: Langston Hughes
August 1937month
Madridattested
“In August 1937, he broadcast live from Madrid alongside Harry Haywood and Walter Benjamin Garland.”
source: Wikipedia: Langston Hughes
1947year
Atlanta Universityattested
“Although Hughes seldom responded to requests to teach at colleges, in 1947 he taught at Atlanta University.”
source: Wikipedia: Langston Hughes
1947year
Atlantaattested
“Although Hughes seldom responded to requests to teach at colleges, in 1947 he taught at Atlanta University.”
source: Wikipedia: Langston Hughes
1949year
University of Chicago Laboratory Schoolsattested
“In 1949, he spent three months at the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools as a visiting lecturer.”
source: Wikipedia: Langston Hughes
22 May 1967exact date
New York Cityattested
“On May 22, 1967, at the age of 66, Hughes died at the Stuyvesant Polyclinic in New York City from complications following abdominal surgery related to prostate cancer.”
source: Wikipedia: Langston Hughes
22 May 1967exact date
Stuyvesant Polyclinicattested
“On May 22, 1967, at the age of 66, Hughes died at the Stuyvesant Polyclinic in New York City from complications following abdominal surgery related to prostate cancer.”
source: Wikipedia: Langston Hughes
22 May 1967exact date
New Yorkattested
“On May 22, 1967, at the age of 66, Hughes died at the Stuyvesant Polyclinic in New York City from complications following abdominal surgery related to prostate cancer.”
source: Wikipedia: Langston Hughes
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Places Langston Hughes is documented in
Mexico2 presences · 1919 to 1920Atlanta1 presence · 1947Madrid1 presence · 1937New York1 presence · 1967New York City1 presence · 1967Spain1 presence · 1935
Atlanta University1 presence · 1947
Joplin, Missouri1 presence · 1901
Mobile, Alabama1 presence · 1927
Rand School1 presence · 1922
Stuyvesant Polyclinic1 presence · 1967
University of Chicago Laboratory Schools1 presence · 1949
Other places tied to Langston Hughes in the record
In each of these, a source puts Langston Hughes and the place in the same dated sentence without stating that Langston Hughes was there. They are kept apart from the timeline above for exactly that reason: a mention is not a presence, and Quo Fuit does not quietly promote one into the other.
September 1921month
Columbia Universitymentioned
“His tuition provided, Hughes left his father after more than a year and enrolled at Columbia University in September 1921.”
source: Wikipedia: Langston Hughes
1923year
West Africamentioned
“Malone in 1923, spending six months traveling to West Africa and Europe.”
source: Wikipedia: Langston Hughes
1927year
Fisk Universitymentioned
“In the spring of 1927, he was asked to perform his poems at Fisk University, a historically black university in Nashville, and at a Young Women's Christian Association convention in Texas.”
source: Wikipedia: Langston Hughes
1927year
Nashville, Tennesseementioned
“In the spring of 1927, he was asked to perform his poems at Fisk University, a historically black university in Nashville, and at a Young Women's Christian Association convention in Texas.”
source: Wikipedia: Langston Hughes
1927year
Texasmentioned
“In the spring of 1927, he was asked to perform his poems at Fisk University, a historically black university in Nashville, and at a Young Women's Christian Association convention in Texas.”
source: Wikipedia: Langston Hughes
1929year
Lincoln University (Pennsylvania)mentioned
“degree from Lincoln University in 1929, he returned to New York.”
source: Wikipedia: Langston Hughes
1929year
New Yorkmentioned
“degree from Lincoln University in 1929, he returned to New York.”
source: Wikipedia: Langston Hughes
1932year
Soviet Unionmentioned
“In 1932, Langston Hughes traveled to the Soviet Union as part of a group of African Americans invited to participate in a proposed film depicting the conditions of Black life in the United States.”
source: Wikipedia: Langston Hughes
1932year
United Statesmentioned
“In 1932, Langston Hughes traveled to the Soviet Union as part of a group of African Americans invited to participate in a proposed film depicting the conditions of Black life in the United States.”
source: Wikipedia: Langston Hughes
1937year
Spainmentioned
“Partly as a show of support for the Republican faction during the Spanish Civil War, in 1937 Hughes traveled to Spain as a correspondent for the Baltimore Afro-American and other various African-American newspapers.”
source: Wikipedia: Langston Hughes
1937year
Harlemmentioned
“the poem "Let America be America Again") * Madrid 1937 with etchings by Dalla Husband, Gonzalo More, Paris, 1939 * Note on Commercial Theatre, 1940 * Shakespeare in Harlem, Knopf, 1942 * Freedom's Plow, New York: Musette Publishers, 1943…”
source: Wikipedia: Langston Hughes
1940 to 1996period
Americamentioned
“1955 * Simple Stakes a Claim, 1957 * Tambourines to Glory, 1958 * The Best of Simple, 1961 * Simple's Uncle Sam, 1965 * Something in Common and Other Stories, Hill & Wang, 1963 * Short Stories of Langston Hughes, Hill & Wang, 1996 * The…”
source: Wikipedia: Langston Hughes
1942 to 1949period
United Statesmentioned
“Between 1942 and 1949, Hughes was a frequent writer and served on the editorial board of Common Ground, a literary magazine focused on cultural pluralism in the United States published by the Common Council for American Unity (CCAU).”
source: Wikipedia: Langston Hughes
Documented at the same place, the same year
Edward HopperThe New School · 1967Stan LeeManhattan · 1922Barbara Bel GeddesManhattan · 1922Friedrich HayekUniversity of Chicago · 1949C. Wright MillsUniversity of Chicago · 1949Ricardo MontalbánMexico City · 1920Mikhail BorodinMexico City · 1920Patricia HighsmithNew York · 1967Van MorrisonNew York · 1967Clement AttleeSpain · 1937Oskar DirlewangerSpain · 1937Hermann Joseph MullerSpain · 1937
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Sources
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