sincerely, langston hughes. by may of that year my father and langston had become fast friends.h langston sent matt a telegram about an exciting prospect, a trip to moscow that louise had been organizing from new york. >> dear matt, here is a copy of your wire from louise. moscow wired all players must arrive moscow by july 1. there he misses her you new york ready to sail by june 15. have a good group. consult map. wire immediately. louise. so if you are going you have to get a passport at once. airmail louise your decision. i hope you can go, langston. the group of young black professionals, intellectuals anarchists had been invited to moscow to make a film entitled black and white about the state of race relations in the united states. matt and langston were roommates during their stay in the soviet union. they are in heavy atmosphere of the new socialism, they forged their friendship and commitment to radical political struggle. william paterson had gone to the soviet union earlier. by 1920 he was seriously studying radical political philosophy and travel to moscow to contin

imai langston hughes patriot. langston hughes in 1935, so think about this. this is a black man in 1935 talking about america says let america be america again. let it be that dream the dreamers dream. america wouldn't never america to me. and then he goes on with a beautiful home and says let it be that great, strong land of love where never kings connived that any man be crushed by one above. america was never america to me. sometimes that poem is it taught to talk about just how terrible american history is, but if you read to the end of the paloma, what he says is we the people of the rod and ruin of our hate and lives, we the people must reclaim the rivers and endless flame and make america america again and the reason i think shoes-- i may hughes patriot is he tells us a way to think about our country and our past and our future, both to be non- sentimental about what we have been. as peter was saying, there have been plenty of bad times in america. this is not the worst. i do not think-- i hope many of us were not choose to live in 1850 america over ri

effects were still everywhere, and they were able to reconnect with school friends cab callaway and langston hughesalloway music) ♪ hey now, hey now! jose anderson: you had a group of african-american professionals, a group of african-american creative people from which houston and marshall could draw encouragement from the whole post-harlem renaissance era, and so that community actually helped to energize momentum for the legal campaign across the entire country. jose anderson: new york was an exciting place to be the headquarters for the campaign. in fact new york had plenty of race issues of its own. thurgood marshall: after a riot would break in harlem a code number would go out to all policemen in the 123rd street precinct - that's right in the middle of harlem. in the meantime all of the white policemen in harlem, where the riot is going on, just stand perfectly still. and don't use a weapon, don't use a gun, just stand there until you're replaced. and then these guys go out in these other cars, and the colored fella taps the white fella on the shoulder, he gets in the car. and it about, wel