This is why poet Langston Hughes has a Google doodle — independent.co.uk

The animated sequence shows a caricature of Hughes at his typewriter as lines from his poem I Dream a World appear. Hughes was born in 1902 in Joplin, Missouri, and largely raised by his grandmother while his mother looked for work. His father - with whom he had troubled relationship - had left the family and travelled to Cuba and Mexico in an attempt to escape the racism that was rife in America at the time. Hughes joined his father in Mexico and agreed to study engineering so long as he could attend Colombia University. He left the following year due to racial prejudice.

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