Will you help improve the profile of Langston Hughes for this week's Collaborative Profile of the Week?

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Langston Hughes is a Notable and a perfect choice for Black History Month, but his profile needs some help! Several people have helped get him going, adding sources and some biography, but what can you add?

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Ideas:

* Langston has no family connected. Can you attach parents, siblings, spouses, or children? 

* Once we start adding family, can we get him connected to the Global Tree?

* A biography section is started, but could be augmented. There are *lots* of sources already on the page to work from. We definitely want to talk a bit about his work.

* Can we find a nice background photo?

* Biographies for surrounding family once they're added

WikiTree profile: Langston Hughes
in Requests for Project Volunteers by Abby Glann G2G6 Pilot (745k points)

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Some good links for additional info (quick google search):

http://www.geni.com/family-tree/index/6000000009172181401 shows great-grandparents

http://www.poemhunter.com/langston-hughes/biography/ Notes on his ancestry

http://www.kansashistory.us/langstonhughes.html Lawrence KS childhood and family info.

Plus Wikipedia.

I added these sources, plus Notables template, and a whole bunch of others to his biography. This includes wargs, which generally has great sources for celebrity/notable relationships (a genealogist originally published it).

We should probably combine the 'Other Sources' and 'Source' sections, and condense the census information, for readability.
by Bob Fields G2G6 Mach 1 (10.5k points)
selected by Anne B
I have Langston Hughes connected, through his mother's family and the slave owner ancestor Ralph Quarles. I'll wait till the update tomorrow to see the connection to AJ. http://www.wargs.com/family/stratton.html documents additional family relationships to Tom Hanks, Birch Bayh, Sissy Spacek, Sam Walton.Britney Spears, Cindy Crawford, Glen Close, Reuben Askew, Uma Thurman, Tom Cruise, Judy Garland, Steve McQueen, and many US Representatives and Generals. It would be fascinating to connect all of them together with Langston Hughes.

I am 11th cousins 6 times removed with Langston Hughes, with numerous other connections going back 26 generations.
Well-done all!

How can we work in his discovery in DC, and also the popular V Street, NW  bookstore-cafe (in DC, where he began his poetry career in earnest)  'Busboys and Poets'  that pay him tribute?

Shira
+9 votes
I'll add his parents!
by Eowyn Walker G2G Astronaut (2.5m points)
+6 votes
I added some info to his bio, and a background image.

There is still time for someone to write a really dynamite bio.
by Anne B G2G Astronaut (1.3m points)

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