John Mercer Langston: Abolitionist, Educator, Activist, Attorney

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John Mercer Langston: Abolitionist, Educator, Activist, Attorney

John Mercer Langston was an American abolitionist, attorney, educator, activist, and politician. Langston was the first dean of the law school at Howard University, helped create the department, as well as the first president of what is now Virginia State University. Born free in Virginia to a freedwoman of mixed race and a white planter father, […]

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