New High School Name Proposal

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New High School Name Proposal

• Langston Hughes High School

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Positive Role Model

• Intellectual African American
• Started as a busboy then rose to prominence as a
  poet and author
• Strong sense of racial pride

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Langston Hughes 1902 - 1967

• Influential poet and author of the Harlem
  Renaissance, the African American artistic
  movement in the 1920s that celebrated black life
  and culture
• Promoted equality, condemned racism and
  injustice and celebrated African American
  culture, humor and spirituality
• Literary works helped shape American literature
  and politics
• Wrote poetry, novels, plays, essays, and
  children's books

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Dreams

• Hold fast to dreams For if dreams die Life is
  a broken-winged bird That cannot fly. Hold fast
  to dreams For when dreams go Life is a barren
  field Frozen with snow.
• Langston Hughes