Curated teaching resource
NYC LGBTQ Historic Sites Project: Langston Hughes Residence
By NYC LGBTQ Historic Sites Project / Amanda Davis
- Collection
- Teaching Activities
- Subject
- History
- Grades
- Grades 9-12
- Format
- Primary Source
- Curriculum
- Cross-curricular
- Publisher or host
- nyclgbtsites.org
Why this resource is included
Detailed entry on Hughes at 20 East 127th Street with notes on the Emerson and Ethel Harper household, the birth-year correction (1901 not 1902 per 2018 research), interior photographs, and references to Rampersad biography vol. II. For advanced students exploring Hughes’s full biography. Citations: Rampersad 2002, Schuessler NYT 2018.