LANGSTON HUGHES SIGNED+1st HdBk FIGHT FOR FREEDOM NAACP **HISTORIC/MUSEUM PIECE OF BLACK HISTORY!! VERY RARE!! Start Price USD 1,200.00 Current Price USD 1,200.00 Time Left - Bid Count 0 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Tuesday, November 18, 2008 End Time Monday, November 24, 2008 Location THE NATIONS CAPITOL AREA See more about 'LANGSTON HUGHES SIGNED+1st HdBk FIGHT FOR FREEDOM NAACP' Description LANGSTON HUGHES SIGNED+1st HdBk FIGHT FOR FREEDOM NAACP *****ONE OF A KIND COPY!!!**** ~~SIGNED LANGSTON HUGHES TO LLOYD GARRISON with ADDED NOTE ON HIS PHOTOGRAPH!!~~     LANGSTON HUGHES(February 1, 1902 - May 22, 1967) Born in Joplin, Missouri, James Langston Hughes was a member of an abolitionist family. He was the great-great-grandson of Charles Henry Langston, brother of John Mercer Langston, who was the first Black American to be elected to public office, in 1855. Hughes attended Central High School in Cleveland, Ohio, but began writing poetry in the eighth grade, and was selected as Class Poet. His father didn't think he would be able to make a living at writing, and encouraged him to pursue a more practical career. He paid his son's tuition to Columbia University on the grounds he study engineering. After a short time, Langston dropped out of the program with a B+ average; all the while he continued writing poetry. His first published poem was also one of his most famous, "The Negro Speaks of Rivers", and it appeared in Brownie's Book. Later, his poems, short plays, essays and short stories appeared in the NAACP publication Crisis Magazine and in Opportunity Magazine and other publications. One of Hughes' finest essays appeared in the Nation in 1926, entitled "The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain". It spoke of Black writers and poets, "who would surrender racial pride in the name of a false integration," where a talented Black writer would prefer to be considered a poet, not a Black poet, which to Hughes meant he subconsciously wanted to write like a white poet. Hughes argued, "no great poet has ever been afraid of being himself." He wrote in this essay, "We younger Negro artists now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are pleased we are glad. If they aren't, it doesn't matter. We know we are beautiful. And ugly too... If colored people are pleased we are glad. If they are not, their displeasure doesn't matter either. We build our temples for tomorrow, as strong as we know how and we stand on the top of the mountain, free within ourselves." In 1923, Hughes traveled abroad on a freighter to the Senegal, Nigeria, the Cameroons, Belgium Congo, Angola, and Guinea in Africa, and later to Italy and France, Russia and Spain. One of his favorite pastimes whether abroad or in Washington, D.C. or Harlem, New York was sitting in the clubs listening to blues, jazz and writing poetry. Through these experiences a new rhythm emerged in his writing, and a series of poems such as "The Weary Blues" were penned. He returned to Harlem, in 1924, the period known as the Harlem Renaissance. During this period, his work was frequently published and his writing flourished. In 1925 he moved to Washington, D.C., still spending more time in blues and jazz clubs. He said, "I tried to write poems like the songs they sang on Seventh Street...(these songs) had the pulse beat of the people who keep on going." At this same time, Hughes accepted a job with Dr. Carter G. Woodson, editor of the Journal of Negro Life and History and founder of Black History Week in 1926. He returned to his beloved Harlem later that year. Langston Hughes received a scholarship to Lincoln University, in Pennsylvania, where he received his B.A. degree in 1929. In 1943, he was awarded an honorary Lit.D by his alma mater; a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1935 and a Rosenwald Fellowship in 1940. Based on a conversation with a man he knew in a Harlem bar, he created a character know as My Simple Minded Friend in a series of essays in the form of a dialogue. In 1950, he named this lovable character Jess B. Simple, and authored a series of books on him. Langston Hughes was a prolific writer. In the forty-odd years between his first book in 1926 and his death in 1967, he devoted his life to writing and lecturing. He wrote sixteen books of poems, two novels, three collections of short stories, four volumes of "editorial" and "documentary" fiction, twenty plays, children's poetry, musicals and operas, three autobiographies, a dozen radio and television scripts and dozens of magazine articles. In addition, he edited seven anthologies. The long and distinguished list of Hughes' works includes: Not Without Laughter (1930); The Big Sea (1940); I Wonder As I Wander" (1956), his autobiographies. His collections of poetry include: The Weary Blues (1926); The Negro Mother and other Dramatic Recitations (1931); The Ways Of White Folks (1934);The Dream Keeper (1932); Shakespeare In Harlem (1942); Fields of Wonder (1947); One Way Ticket (1947); The First Book of Jazz (1955); Tambourines To Glory (1958); and Selected Poems (1959); The Best of Simple (1961). He edited several anthologies in an attempt to popularize black authors and their works. Some of these are: An African Treasury (1960); Poems from Black Africa (1963); New Negro Poets: USA (1964) and The Best Short Stories by Negro Writers (1967). Published posthumously were: Five Plays By Langston Hughes (1968); The Panther and The Lash: Poems of Our Times (1969) and Good Morning Revolution: Uncollected Writings of Social Protest (1973); The Sweet Flypaper of Life with Roy DeCarava (1984). Langston Hughes died of cancer on May 22, 1967. His residence at 20 East 127th Street in Harlem, New York has been given landmark status by the New York City Preservation Commission. His block of East 127th Street was renamed "Langston Hughes Place" . LANGSTON HUGHES  SIGNED "FIGHT FOR FREEDOM, The Story Of The NAACP" FIRST EDITION HARDBACK~ VERY RARE AND SCARCE!! We are happy to offer this SCARCE and VERY COLLECTIBLE copy of his work, "FIGHT FOR FREEDOM, The Story of the NAACP", First Hardback Edition, 1962, 224 pages, $4.95 priced, hardback with original dust jacket in mylar sleeve, Norton. He has boldly signed in his noted green ink on the first end page: "Inscribed especially for Lloyd Garrison- a freedom fighter in the great tradition, Sincerely Langston Hughes New York, August 1, 1962." This rare and wonderful book was inscribed for his good friend and **prominent Attorny and NAACP Official AND GREAT GRANDSON OF THE GREAT WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON!! Lloyd Garrison at the time was with the law firm "Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton and Garrison." (*Ref. "The Life of Langston Hughes" Vol. 1, by Rampersad.) **ADDED BONUS!! He has additionally added the following beneath his photograph on the dustjacket as follows: "This photo of me on the back was no doings of mine. God forbid! I was in Africa when this jacket was made. L.H." Not only book is signed you also get a extremely RARE signed photo!! ONE OF A KIND!! Inscription on jacket is a bit rubbed do to smooth surface when written, still vg. Book is in very good condition++, clean with only normal age toning. A difficult title to find signed, especially with original dustjacket, bears  a few small chips on top and bottom of spine and typical wear else vg+ and not price clipped!! **We could only find one other HARDBACK, First Edition copy available on the market and it is priced at $1800!! Signed Hughes titles, are getting increasingly difficult to obtain. , esecially now that America has its first black President!!. Be sure to check our other rare tiltes up for sale from our collection. ***Book has more than 1,000 illustrations from prints, engravings, woodcuts, photographs and paintings. Here for the first time, is a panoramic picture story of the Negro in America, from the arrival of the first African slave shi to present times, covering every aspect of Negro life-social, political, artistic and economic. There are pictures of every famous Negro from Nat Turner, Frederick Douglass and Dred Scott to modern leaders such as Adam Clayton Powell, the Reverend Martin Luther King and Ralph Bunche. *** A TRUE collectible ~ Investment!!  As always, we unconditionally guarantee this and all signed items we sell 100%. We are proud members of the UACC, IACC, carry the  PayPal Buyer Protection so you can bid with confidence!! Feel free to check our "ME" page. FREE Media shipping within U.S. . International bidders must inquire. Be sure to check our other listings up for auction and Fixed Priced Items. Items signed by James Buchanan, Benjamin Harrison, Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover,Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower, George Bush LTD, Bill Clinton Limited Memoirs, Hillary Clinton Limited Memoirs, Richard Nixon, Daniel Webster, Margaret Thatcher,Langston Hughes and many Easton Press signed editions.   **Be sure to check our other items up for sale!! 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