Awards

• 1943, Lincoln University awarded Hughes an honorary Litt.D 
• 1960, the NAACP awarded Hughes the Spingarn Medal for distinguished achievements byan African American
• 1961 National Institute of Arts and Letters
• 1963 Howard University awarded Hughes an honorary doctorate.
• 1973, the first Langston Hughes Medal was awarded by the City College of New York.
• 1979, Langston Hughes Middle School was created in Reston, Virginia.
• 1981, New York City Landmark status was given to the Harlem home of Langston Hughes at 20 East 127th Street  by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission and 127th St. was renamed Langston Hughes Place.The Langston Hughes House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.
• 2002 The United States Postal Service added the image of Langston Hughes to its Black Heritage series of postage stamps.
• 2002, scholar Molefi Kete Asante listed Langston Hughes on his list of 100 Greatest African Americans. 
 
 
 
The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University holds the Langston Hughes papers (1862–1980) and the Langston Hughes collection (1924–1969) containing letters, manuscripts, personal items, photographs, clippings, artworks, and objects that document the life of Hughes. The Langston Hughes Memorial Library on the campus of Lincoln University, as well as at the James Weldon Johnson Collection within the Yale University also hold archives of Hughes' work