KU Library Resources

KU Library Resources Related to Langston Hughes and African American Studies

• Kenneth Spencer Research Library at KU
• Kansas Collection - African American Experience
• Langston Hughes Exhibition
• Guide to Langston Hughes Collection - Hughes Papers
• Guide to Langston Hughes Collection - Hughes Literary Works
• KU Libraries Home Page
• KU Libraries African American Studies Subject Guide

“My earliest memories of written words are those of [W. E. B.] Du Bois and the Bible. My maternal grandmother in Kansas, the last surviving widow of John Brown’s Raid, read to me as a child from both the Bible and The Crisis.”
(Langston Hughes, Freedomways (1st Quarter, 1965), 11.)