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Department of English

University of Kansas

Langston Hughes National Poetry Project

 

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Lanston Hughes Symposium   Tracing the History of HBW...

 

 

Unveiling of the Black Heritage - Langston Hughes Stamp at the Langston Hughes Symposium

 

 

 

 

ANNIE GREENE NELSON

1902-1997

First Black Woman Novelist in South Carolina in the twentieth century.Her three published novels - "After the Storm(1912)", "The Dawn Appears(1914)" and "Don't walk on my dreams(1961)" - are all affectionately dedicated to the people of her native region and tell the story of their struggle to make ends meet in the Old South.

 

 

Akiba Sullivan Harper and Arnold Rampersad

 

 

 

Susanne Dietzel, Maryemma Graham and David Deskins

1985 - Headquarters of HBW

University of Mississippi, Oxford

 

From Right: Eugene Redmond, Jessica Care Moore, Tony Medina, Sonia Sanchez, Amiri BakaraVal Gray Ward, Bill Tuttle, Maryemma Graham, Toni-Marie Montgomery.

 

Dr.Barbara Hunt

 Director, Afro-American Novel Project at the University of Mississippi, Oxford

 

Amiri Baraka

 

 

Danny Glover

 

 

Maryemma Graham, Leon Forrest and Susanne Dietzel

1989 - Headquarters of HBW

Northeastern University, Boston

 

 

Maryemma Graham and

Rev. Rene Brown

 

 

 

Paule Marshal

 

 

Standing: Weigeng Wu, Jeanne Phoenix Laurel, Susan E. Jones, Sheri Divers, Kelly Norman.

Sitting: Nicole St. Peter, Kenya McDonald, Maryemma Graham. (Poster of Richard Wright, far right.)

HBW Staff at Northeastern University, Boston

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