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  • Langston Hughes, recorded over 60 years ago on his U of I visit

    Feb 10, 2022 2:30 pm by Illinois Public Media
    Poet Langston Hughes, photographed by Gordon Parks in 1943.

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    • Poet Langston Hughes, photographed by Gordon Parks in 1943.

    A recording of Langston Hughes speaking to U of I students and reading his poetry in 1957, found in the University Archives.