Organizational Behavior

• 1902-1967

• Best known Am. Writer of 20th cent.

• Member of Harlem Ren. (1920’s)

• Help est. vital af am lit

• Viewed art and politics as inseperable

• Struggled to achieve racial and eco justice

• Born inJoplin, Missouri

• Exp. Racial & eco inequities from youth

• Father James Hughes -studied law -denied right to take bar exam bc of race -fled to mexico to further education

• Mother Carrie -refused to follow husband

• Little contact w. father

• Voracious reader

• Attended central HS in Clevland, OH -began writing poetry -met Carl Sandburg (chief influnence)

• 1920 went to live w. Dad in Mexico...