mar 7, 1920 - Langston Hughes and racism

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source's accuracy unknown (http://c250.columbia.edu/c250_perspectives/write_history/1341.html): "Langston Hughes, accepted at Columbia University in the early twenties, was denied a room in the dormitory because he was black. He lived in the Harlem YMCA, spent much of his time exploring the cultural attractions of Harlem, and dropped out after only a year at Columbia. He eventually graduated from Lincoln, a black college in Pennsylvania. By 1926, he had published his first volume of poetry."

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