Langston Hughes

American politician from Kentucky

American activist

American abolitionist and political activist

American politician

American writer and actress (1873-1938)

African American teacher of Latin, text-book author

Trinidad and Tobago jurist and politician

African-American historian, writer, and journalist

American poet

Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court

American philanthropist

American poet, essayist and journalist

American academic

African American folklorist, novelist, short story writer, and Civic Rights advocate

American novelist active during the Harlem Renaissance

Jamaican American writer, poet

American writer

American writer

African-American painter, illustrator and visual arts educator

Haitian politician and poet

Polish-born Jewish-American painter & sculptor

Defected Communist spy

American novelist

Novelist, poet, playwright, critic, editor

American labor activist

Literary agent

American poet, novelist

American writer and photographer

American writer

American author and activist

Mechanical engineer, born 1907

Hungarian-British author and journalist

American politician

American journalist, poet, and communist activist

Leader of the Soviet Union from 1924 to 1953

American theologian

American playwright and writer

African-American writer