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Article: New book scouts spots where Langston Hughes spent youth.(what's new)
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- Black Issues in Higher Education
- Article date:
- December 30, 2004
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LAWRENCE, KAN.
While researching a new book identifying Lawrence locations significant in the life of Langston Hughes, Dr. Denise Low and T.E Pecore Weso made an interesting discovery.
"Every place in Lawrence that Langston Hughes mentioned, or his biographers mentioned, that a racial injustice occurred to him is no longer here, it's gone," said Weso, co-author of the new Langston Hughes in Lawrence: Photographs & Biographical Resources.
The Patee Theater, where Hughes and other Black Lawrence residents were turned away, is now just an empty entrance to an alleyway. But St. Luke AME Church, which Hughes attended as a child with his grandmother, ...