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What Brought Our Ancestors To America?

What was the dream that brought our ancestors to
America? It was rebirth, the craving for men to be born
again, the yearning for a second chance. With all of these
ideas comes the true American dream-Freedom. This is the
condition in which a man feels like a human being. It is the
purpose and consequence of rebirth. Throughout the life of
Langston Hughes he presented ideas in his writings that
help to define his perception of the American dream.In
beginning, Langston Hughes was born on February 1,
1902 in Joplin, Missouri. His father was James Nathaniel
Hughes, a man who studied law but was unable to take the
examination for the bar because he was black. His mother
was Carrie Hughes, a woman who studied at the University
of Kansas in an ongoing struggle to earn a living outside of
domestic labor. Langston's father left home to live in Cuba
and then Mexico to free himself from the Jim Crow laws
and Segregation. Hughes then went to live with his
grandmother in......


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