Langston Hughes, President and Vice-President of Uzbekistan, Achun Babaief (right) and Jahan Abinova (left). The President was formerly a plowman; Jahan Abinova, an inmate of a harem. (Soviet Central Asia) 1

Published August 12, 2015 at 2856 × 2212 in A black man in Turkmenistan: Langston Hughes’ 1932 account of Soviet Central Asia

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