<p>First draft of “Gandhi in Prison” by Langston Hughes, 1942<br /> New York, New York<br /> Courtesy of the Langston Hughes Papers Box 378 Folder 6426, James Weldon Johnson Collection in the Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University</p>

First draft of “Gandhi in Prison” by Langston Hughes, 1942
New York, New York
Courtesy of the Langston Hughes Papers Box 378 Folder 6426, James Weldon Johnson Collection in the Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University

American poet Langston Hughes featured Mahatma Gandhi in his poems, comparing India’s struggle for independence to the civil rights movement in the United States.

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