Postcard measuring 4.75 x 6.5 inches, printed in brown. Typed address of Langston Hughes to verso, with penciled corrections. Corners lightly bumped.
Invitation to the Negro History Week program at the Society for Ethical Culture on February 9, 1953, featuring poet Langston Hughes as the headline speaker. Other participants included novelist Fannie Hurst, Nicholas Pinto of the New York State Commission against Discrimination, and retired U.S. District Court judge J. Waties Waring. African-American baritone Andrew Frierson, who would go on to sing with the New York City Opera, was the featured concert artist.
This is Langston Hughes's own copy of the invitation, with his typed mailing address of 20 East 127th Street in Harlem. For the last two decades of his life, Hughes lived on the third floor of the brownstone owned by family friends Emerson and Toy Harper, now the site of the Langston Hughes House, a historic landmark and cultural center. A compelling piece of African-American literary history.
Postcard measuring 4.75 x 6.5 inches, printed in brown. Typed address of Langston Hughes to verso, with penciled corrections. Corners lightly bumped.
Invitation to the Negro History Week program at the Society for Ethical Culture on February 9, 1953, featuring poet Langston Hughes as the headline speaker. Other participants included novelist Fannie Hurst, Nicholas Pinto of the New York State Commission against Discrimination, and retired U.S. District Court judge J. Waties Waring. African-American baritone Andrew Frierson, who would go on to sing with the New York City Opera, was the featured concert artist.
This is Langston Hughes's own copy of the invitation, with his typed mailing address of 20 East 127th Street in Harlem. For the last two decades of his life, Hughes lived on the third floor of the brownstone owned by family friends Emerson and Toy Harper, now the site of the Langston Hughes House, a historic landmark and cultural center. A compelling piece of African-American literary history.