Langston Hughes- Brought W.E.B. Du Bois's dream of African-American theater, "by us, for us, near us and about us.鈥�
In the 1920s, Langston Hughes emerged as a major figure of the artistic and social movement known as the Harlem Renaissance. But Mulatto鈥擧ughes鈥� most successful play鈥攄id not reach the Broadway stage until 1935.