Poet, playwright, novelist, and social activist Langston Hughes and civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. shared a common ideology and deep faith in the American Dream — what America could be for all men and women of every race, creed, and color.
Hughes, who was 27 years older than King, died less than a year before King’s assassination on April 4, 1968, in Memphis, Tennessee. The activists knew each other and shared a common vision for America.
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