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Kacey Cooper
Apr 24, 202333 min read
Reading While Black: The Power of Black Literacy
Kacey Cooper Dr. Sumita Chakraborty ENG 582 12 October 2022 Reading While Black: The Power of Black Literacy Introduction Setting sail in...
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Kacey Cooper
Apr 11, 20231 min read
Paul Muni's 1943 "Freedom's Plow" Performance
Special thanks to the National Urban League and the National Humanities Center library for helping secure Paul Muni's 1943 performance of...
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Kacey Cooper
Dec 12, 20226 min read
ENG 525: The Power of African American English
Kacey Cooper Dr. Walt Wolfram ENG 525 12 October 2022 The Power of African American English Introduction As part of the NCSU English...
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Kacey Cooper
Dec 11, 20221 min read
Hughes' 1949 National Negro Week Tour Itinerary
Langston Hughes toured North Carolina during National Negro History Week. See below for his itinerary and those he met along the way:...
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Kacey Cooper
Jan 8, 20222 min read
Tour Series: Hughes' Visit to Camillus Darden's House (4th & Last Stop)
Hughes' Visit The Darden Reception Hughes was invited to a reception at the Darden house for his last and final event in Wilson, NC. In...
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Kacey Cooper
Jan 7, 20222 min read
Tour Series: Hughes' Visit to the Wilson County Negro Library (3rd Stop)
Hughes' Visit The Core of Events At the core of Hughes’ Negro History Week events in Wilson, NC was Librarian Elizabeth Jenkins of the...
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Kacey Cooper
Jan 6, 20222 min read
Tour Series: Hughes' Visit to Darden High School (2nd Stop)
Hughes' Visit The Darden Performance Taking a trip down Carroll Street, Langston Hughes arrived at Darden High School. The exact location...
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Kacey Cooper
Jan 5, 20222 min read
Tour Series: Hughes' Visit to St. Alphonsus (1st Stop)
Hughes' Visit Saint Alphonsus Performance First on Langston Hughes’ Negro History Week itinerary list, devised by Librarian Elizabeth...
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Kacey Cooper
Jan 4, 20222 min read
"Freedom's Plow" Series: Analysis Part 4
Analysis ranging from lines 175, “Who said those things? Americans!,” to the last line 202, “HOLD ON!” Who said those things? Americans!...
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Kacey Cooper
Jan 3, 20226 min read
"Freedom's Plow" Series: Analysis Part 3
Analysis ranges from line 111, "He was a colored man who had been a slave," to line 174, "THAN TO LIVE SLAVES.." Poem Annotations &...
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Kacey Cooper
Jan 2, 20224 min read
"Freedom's Plow" Series: Analysis Part 2
Analysis ranges from line 48,"Down into the earth went the plow," to line 94,"AND THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS." Poem Annotations & Analysis:...
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Kacey Cooper
Jan 1, 20226 min read
"Freedom's Plow" Series: Analysis Part 1
Analysis ranging from the title, “Freedom’s Plow,” to its 47th line, “FREEDOM.” Title Analysis: Why is it called “Freedom’s Plow?” The...
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Kacey Cooper
Dec 31, 20216 min read
"Freedom's Plow" Series: Background Information
An overview of the context for Langston Hughes' poem "Freedom's Plow" (1943), which the students at St. Alphonsus recited back to him....
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Kacey Cooper
Dec 30, 20214 min read
"Freedom's Plow" Series: Why?
Insight In 1949, students at St. Alphonsus School in Wilson, NC recited Langston Hughes' poem "Freedom's Plow" back to him. Why this...
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Kacey Cooper
Dec 29, 20211 min read
Site Informational Guide
The “Welcome to Wilson, NC, Mr. Hughes” is a two-part website, featuring cumulative research on the renowned African-American poet,...
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