Websites
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A webpage featuring various scholarly discussions of Hughes’s famous poem.
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A John Carroll University website dedicated to the Harlem Renaissance
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An exhibition portfolio from the Shomburg Center for Research in Black Culture: The New York Public Library
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A Poets.org guide to the Harlem Renaissance
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A University of Michigan website dedicated to "The Negro Speaks of Rivers."
Video
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A preview of a documentary about the Congo.
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A kind of strange animated video of Hughes reading "The Negro Speaks of Rivers."
Audio
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Images
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A picture of Langston Hughes as a young man.
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Artist Winold Reiss painted a portrait of Langston Hughes, and it hangs in the National Portrait Gallery.
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A street in Harlem during the Harlem Renaissance
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A cover of a 1923 issue of the NAACP’s magazine, The Crisis. "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" was featured in an issue of this magazine in 1921.
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A portrait of good old Abe.
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Check out the Nile and the pyramids.
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Planning a trip to Egypt? You’ll need this.
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A picture of the Euphrates River.
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A map of the Euphrates River
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A picture of the Congo River
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A map of the Congo River
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A picture of the Mississippi River
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A map of the Mississippi River
Historical Documents
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Read an essay by Langston Hughes about the obstacles that artists of color face.
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NPR Essayist, Vertamae Grosvenor, discusses Langston Hughes
Books
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