Hughes Adulthood
Langston Worked many jobs in many coteries including West Africa, Europe, England, Paris, and The U.S. He worked odd jobs before gaining a white collar job in 1925 as a personal assistant to Carter G. Woodson. Because of the job limiting his time for writing he quit and worked as a bus boy at a hotel. There he met Vachel Lindsay. They shared poems and Lindsay publicized his discovery of a new black poet. At this time Hughes work had been published into magazines and was about to be collected into his first book of poetry. later the following year he enrolled in Lincoln university. After he received a B.A. degree from the university in 1929 he turned to New York. He lived in Harlem as a home for the rest of his life. During the 1930s he became a resident of Westfield New Jersey. On May 22 1967 Hughes died from complications after abdominal surgery related to prostate Cancer at the age of 65.