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Langston Hughes
Joplin, Missouri
Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Born in Joplin and raised largely by his grandmother in Lawrence, Kansas, whose first husband died at Harpers Ferry with John Brown. He wrote the poem that made him, The Negro Speaks of Rivers, at eighteen on a train crossing the Mississippi.
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