LANGSTON-HUGHES
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AXN · AXN:072D.ORIGINAL.🎆♅🔓🟤♣️🌉 · six glyphs of the SHA-256 of the seat’s MANIFEST.sha256, under the hex of its seating deposit (resolver)
edition · The Crisis, Vol. 22 No. 2 (New York: NAACP, June 1921), W. E. Burghardt Du Bois, editor — the number that printed 'The Negro Speaks of Rivers'; microfilm scan; Alain Locke, ed., The New Negro: An Interpretation (New York: Albert and Charles Boni, 1925), with poems by Langston Hughes and W. E. Burghardt Du Bois's 'The Negro Mind Reaches Out' — the first edition; State Library of Pennsylvania copy; The Nation, Vol. 122 No. 3181 (New York, 23 June 1926), with Langston Hughes, 'The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain' — microfilm scan; The Weary Blues (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1926), Project Gutenberg EBook #74745 — transcription of the first edition; Fire!! A Quarterly Devoted to the Younger Negro Artists, Vol. 1 No. 1 (New York, November 1926), with Langston Hughes's poems and his name among its editors, Project Gutenberg EBook #71448 — transcription from the Beinecke Library copy; Countee Cullen, ed., Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets (New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1927), with Langston Hughes's poems and his note on himself — the first edition, 'Copyright, 1927, by Harper & Brothers'; Caroling Dusk (1927), Project Gutenberg EBook #76889 — transcription; Not Without Laughter (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1930) — the first edition
license · payload: Public domain in the United States: every item was first published in the United States in 1930 or earlier. Internet Archive scans of public-domain volumes and periodical numbers; Project Gutenberg transcriptions under the Project Gutenberg License (the text is public domain in the United States; the licence governs use of the Project Gutenberg name and trademark), whose header each file carries. Outside the United States the terms differ: life plus seventy years opens Du Bois (d. 1963) in 2034 and Hughes (d. 1967) in 2038. · record: CC-BY-4.0 applies to this seat record only.
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why seated · MANUS, 27 October 2026, after the twenty-fourth seating set the Book of Mormon on the shelf ("its as american as literature comes. but then i am like, i dont have king of malcolm or mao. it leads down a path where things start getting hairy"): "du bois and langston hughes are public domain tho, right?" — then "lets seat what can be seated of du bois and hughes", and, versioning the originals packet to include them: "the canon's america is way too white". Hughes is seated as far as the public domain reaches, from the poem Du Bois printed in The Crisis of June 1921 to his first novel, beside Du Bois (26/01) and beside Whitman (03/01), whose America the Epilogue of The Weary Blues answers: 'I, too, sing America.'