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…showed last 75 words of 449 total…achieve their own dreams, and alerted the country to our own problems of racism. Hughes served as both an inspiration and a mentor for the younger black writers who came of age in the 1960s. With his rich poetic voice, nurturing generosity, warm humor, and abiding love of black people, Langston Hughes was one of the dominant voices in American literature of this century and perhaps the single most influential African American poet. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**