16pp, 8 1/2 x 11 in. (light wear and soil). Hughes, who served as the emcee for this February 1963 WLIB Festival of Negro Music and Drama, boldly signs the cover "awards presented by Langston Hughes."

The festival's presenting radio station, New York City's WLIB, had in the 1950s targeted large amounts of programming to African American audiences and became a leading voice of New York's black residents. In the 1960s, the station was one of several jazz stations in New York. Among the performers at the festival were the "Combined Choirs of Antioch Baptist Church, Brooklyn," pioneering African American soprano Camilla Williams, as well as multiple rhythm & blues, jazz, and gospel groups. The program notes that "Miss Ella Fitzgerald" was to be the recipient of the WLIB Festival Award.