Desperation Transformed into Transcendence

Black Thunder tind 100 Years of NegronFreedom and the Broadway play St,nLouis Woman, which was attacked bynWalter White and other black leadersnfor allegedly perpetuating the demeaningnstereotype of the peasant Negro.nLangston Hughes has been called thenfirst black American to earn his livingnentirely from writing. He wrote SelectednPoems, The Big . . .