Harlem Renaissance poet Langston Hughes was born in Joplin, Mississippi on February 1, 1901. In 1953, Hughes was called before Senator Joseph McCarthy’s Subcommittee on Investigations to answer questions about Communist influences in his writing. The Subcommittee’s chief counsel, Roy Cohn, expected a simple answer to his question, "Have you ever been a believer in communism?" But for Hughes, the question of his political identity was complex, tied into his personal identity, history, and what it

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