Famous figures against Prejudice and Discrimination

... Famous figures against Prejudice and Discrimination Although different in lifestyle and culture, each of the four individuals shares the same belief. Langston Hughes Langston Hughes was one of the most important writers and thinkers of the Harlem Renaissance, which was the African American artistic movement in the 1920s that celebrated black life and culture. Hughes was influenced by his life in New York City's Harlem, a primarily African American neighbourhood. His literary works helped shape American literature and politics. Hughes, like others active in the Harlem Renaissance, had a strong sense of racial pride. Through his poetry, novels, plays, essays, and children's books, he promoted equality, condemned racism and injustice, and celebrated African American culture, humour, and spirituality. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was born in Portland, Maine in 1807. He became a national literary figure by the 1850s, and a world-famous personality by the time of his death in 1882. He

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