“Simple” was a character the poet Langston Hughes used in his syndicated newspaper column. Upon seeing the man in this photograph, Hughes said, “That’s him.”
Midwest United States, 1946-49
Published in Ebony, December 1951
From Wayne F. Miller: Photographs 1942-1958
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