Daddy, ain’t you heard?
Mark Ford: Langston Hughes’s Journeys, 16 November 2023
Let America Be America Again: Conversations with Langston Hughes
edited by Christopher C. De Santis.
Oxford, 339 pp., £32, August 2022,978 0 19 285504 6 Show More
edited by Christopher C. De Santis.
Oxford, 339 pp., £32, August 2022,
“... middle name – he was baptised James, after his father). Mary’s next husband, Charles Henry Langston, was an abolitionist too; he insisted they name their son after Nat Turner, the leader of the 1831 Virginia slave revolt. His younger brother, John Langston, became one of the most prominent advocates for Black rights in the Reconstruction era, and ... ”