Langston Hughes draft of Freedom's plow : typescript.

United States, 1943.

1 item (2 pages)

English

Gift of Ann Tanneyhill, 1989.

This material is open for research.

Langston Hughes (1902-1967), Black American poet, writer, and central figure of the Harlem Renaissance.

Typescript draft of the first page of Freedom's Plow (poem), with corrections and revisions, and a signed autograph inscription from Langston Hughes to Ann Tanneyhill on a separate page. A note included with the draft indicates that Hughes wrote the poem for broadcast on a radio program of the Vocational Opportunity Campaign and includes additional details about the broadcast.

November 03, 2021

Langston Hughes, Draft of Freedom's Plow. James Weldon Johnson Memorial Collection in the Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.

Langston Hughes, Draft of Freedom's Plow. James Weldon Johnson Memorial Collection in the Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.