26 year old Langston Hughes at Lincoln University in 1927 (he attended 1926-1929)
โBorn in Joplin, Missouri February 1, 1901 James Mercer Langston Hughes had already spent two years in Paris working as a busboy in a Montmartre restaurant owned by WWI pilot Eugene Jacques Bullard. It was in that club he first heard the music of Black American jazz greats who fled to France following the war. One of the earliest innovators of โjazz poetryโ, Hughes is best known as the Poet Laurรฉat of the Harlem Renaissance. Hughes died May 22, 1967 in NYC.โ