illinoisbroadcastarchives_1207A Illinois Public Media Division of Broadcasting Sound Recordings, Record Series 13/6/5, Disk 1207A University of Illinois Archives Clip Dunbar, Paul Laurence Illinois Public Media Art Illinois Public Media Education Illinois Public Media Hughes, Langston Illinois Public Media Poetry Illinois Public Media Missouri Illinois Public Media Kansas Illinois Public Media Music Illinois Public Media Harlem Renaissance Illinois Public Media African American Civil Rights American Archive Civil Rights Subject Categories Langston Hughes talks about his career as a writer on the campus of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Hughes was a pivotal literary figure during the Harlem Renaissance. He tells the story of how he became a poet when his eighth grade classmates unanimously voted on him to be the class poet. He then reads two poems that he wrote in high school. Abstract This is part 1 of 4. Static. Technical Notes Speech Illinois Public Media 1910s-1920s Temporal Kansas Spatial Missouri Spatial Ohio Spatial Illinois Spatial General E WILL Radio Production Unit Hughes, Langston Lecturer Illinois Public Media, University of Illinois Publisher Courtesy of the University of Illinois Archives. Publicly performed under authority of fair use as well as an implied license to broadcast, archive and preserve for public access and use for nonprofit, educational, research, scholarship and personal uses. 2009-12-22T17:16:51-06:00 2009-12-23T17:16:51-06:00 audio/mpeg http://will.illinois.edu/media/mp3/illinoisbroadcastarchives_1207A_32Kbit.mp3 Sound Audio/Streaming MPEG Audio MP3 3216717 13:24 32 kBit/s 16 bits 44100 Hz 1 audio track mono eng 2010-01-04T11:41:51-06:00 illinoisbroadcastarchives_1207A_32Kbit.mp3 Illinois Public Media, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 2009-12-22T17:17:36-06:00 2009-12-23T17:17:36-06:00 audio/mpeg http://will.illinois.edu/media/mp3/illinoisbroadcastarchives_1207A_96Kbit.mp3 Sound Audio/Streaming MPEG Audio MP3 9649631 13:24 96 kBit/s 16 bits 44100 Hz 1 audio track mono eng 2010-01-04T11:41:36-06:00 illinoisbroadcastarchives_1207A_96Kbit.mp3 Illinois Public Media, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 1956-01-01T17:41:43-06:00 Transcription Disk University of Illinois Archives Division of Sound Recordings, Record Series 13/6/5, Disk 1207A Sound Audio/Original recording 13:24 1 audio track mono eng illinoisbroadcastarchives_1207A_disk Illinois Public Media, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign