Joplin, Missouri
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Joplin is a city in Jasper and Newton counties in the U.S. state of Missouri. Most of the city lies in Jasper County, with the southern portion of Joplin extending into Newton County. With a populatio
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Joplin Downtown Historic District
Joplin Carnegie Library
St. Peter the Apostle Catholic Church and Rectory
Langston Hughes
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James Mercer Langston Hughes was an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist from Joplin, Missouri. An early innovator of jazz poetry, Hughes is best known as a leader of th
Joplin, Missouri
…Jane Grant, co-founder of The New Yorker magazine Langston Hughes, poet and writer, for whom Langston Hughes Broadway in Joplin is named Hale Irwin, golfer, three-time U.S. Open champion…
Portrait by Carl Van Vechten, 1942
Hughes in 1902
Hughes in the Central High School yearbook, 1920
Hughes c. 1925