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Carmaletta M. Williams, professor of English and African American studies at Johnson County Community College, is the author of Langston Hughes in the Classroom: ""Do Nothin"" till You Hear from Me and Of Two Spirits: American Indian and African American Oral Histories.

John Edgar Tidwell is a professor of English at the University of Kansas. His previous books include Montage of a Dream: The Art and Life of Langston Hughes, After Winter: The Art and Life of Sterling A. Brown and Writings of Frank Marshall Davis: A Voice of the Black Press.