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Harlem: Media

poem by Hughes

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Langston Hughes, c. 1945
American poet and writer Langston Hughes published his poem “Harlem” in 1951 in his...
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Harlem in the 1930s
Neighborhood residents in front of an apartment building in Harlem, New York City.
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division, The New York Public Library

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