My research essay will focus on “Salvation” by Langston Hughes. Everyone has different religious experiences. Young Langston Hughes religious experience was in an African American church. In this church he experienced the church singing songs and hymns. There was a spiritual word from a preacher reading directly from the King James Version Bible, dissecting the words of God for sinners to understand and hopefully get some sort of spiritual healing. Young Langston had high hopes and expectations of what was told to him about God and being saved. In my essay I talked about what he was informed, his experience, and how he felt after his experience. Some secondary source information that I feel will support my thesis is black religion, influence in an African American church, and Langston Hughes autobiography, because this story was a real-life experience. So far, I have searched the Gale and JSTOR databases on the BMCC library website. I received a lot of results in which I explored “Make A Joyful Noise Unto the Lord” and “The Church, The Family, and the School in The African American Community” so far.