I remember the days when I was a kid and I used to go to the movies and sit in the balcony. And I would see the white kids downstairs, and I would be up there with all the other colored kids.
— Langston Hughes Modern

Harlem Renaissance poet

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Interview with Studs Terkel

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1960s

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Strange & Unusual

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