Langston Hughes Segregation

“America practices integration and practices segregation”(Malcom X) In the first half of the 20th century, racial segregation divided the white community with the black community and even other minorities. Many black civil rights leaders, Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, and Malcom X stood up for equality and abolition of segregation in speeches or boycotts. Langston Hughes, a poet and author from the harlem renaissance era chose to advocate his civil rights through his poetry. His poems A Message to the President and Dream Deferred are able to do that. Langston Hughes conveys the external conflict of segregation obstructing black people’s rights to equality in A Message to the President and Dream Deferred.
Black people in the ‘60s were segregated. Langston Hughes addresses this in A Message to the President by writing a story in the form of a free verse to the president and tells the president his problems he has with how blacks are treated. For example, “ I want the same self-rights/Other Americans have today. I want to fly a plane/Like any other man. I don't like this Jim Crow army/Or this Jim Crow navy...If we have to fight/We ought to be together black and white. So what I’m asking, Mr. President,/Is to hear you say/No more
Although poetry is to be elegant and stylistically rhythmical, it can also be used to convey messages through a story. A story is a manifestation of art and creativity with a moral. He is able to illustrate that story in both of his poems effectively along with the black people’s segregation and lack of equality. Langston Hughes is more than just a poet with rhymes. He is a civil speaker through his work. He represents the black community and is the bridge between disparity and peace. He conveys the universal truth of obstruction of black people’s rights in the ‘60s and will stop