All Individuals Are Equal in Hughes’s “Theme for English B” Langston Hughes wrote a simple paper for his college level English class that depicts the inequity that African Americans faced at the time. His work in literature helped to spur the Harlem renaissance and although this poem was written almost seventy years ago this piece of writing is still relevant in the conversations today about racial injustice. Hughes uses his own personal struggle while writing his assignment to contribute to the larger issue of separation in The United States of America. Hughes uses his paper to not only share his own personal experience, being the only black person in his college course, but to educate the professors and others that the color of skin does
