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#+TITLE: Notes on Langston Hughes's Poetry
#+AUTHOR: Runxi Yu

A lot of these poems are relevant to race and the state of Black Americans
in the 20th century.

* A little timeline
** 1954       -- Brown v. Board
** 1942--1962 -- The Civil Rights Movement
** 1964       -- The Civil Rights Act
** 1967       -- Langston Hughes died

* The Harlem Renissance