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14 giu 2024 · 4. John Mercer Langston. Another page from an Oberlin College class picture shows John Mercer Langston (he is at the far right of the middle row). He earned a bachelor’s degree in 1849 and master’s degree in 1852. The first Black man to pass the bar in Ohio, Langston was also an abolitionist.
30 mag 2024 · John Mercer Langston was born to a mixed-race couple in 1829, a time when interracial relationships were highly taboo and often illegal. His father, Ralph Quarles, was a white plantation owner who held enslaved people, including John's mother, Lucy Langston.
19 giu 2024 · The youngest one, John Mercer Langston, will become the most famous of all Oberlin graduates of the 19th century and a leader of African Americans to the end of the century. - He was the...
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11 giu 2024 · The first head to bear the title of President, John Mercer Langston, was one of the most widely revered Blacks of his day; he was the first Black elected to the United States Congress from Virginia (1888), and he was the great uncle of the famed writer Langston Hughes.
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10 giu 2024 · Among those who actively recruited for the unit were Frederick Douglass, Martin Delany, Henry Highland Garnet, and John Mercer Langston. They and other leaders believed that if the 54th Regiment could succeed in battle, charges of racial inferiority, so frequent at the time, would be undermined decisively.
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30 mag 2024 · Named for John Mercer Langston (1829-1897), the first African-American congressman from Virginia, who also had a distinguished career in the District of Columbia, the school was one of several schools for African American children along the North Capitol Street corridor.
3 giorni fa · Black activists included former slaves such as Frederick Douglass and free blacks such as the brothers Charles Henry Langston and John Mercer Langston, who helped found the Ohio Anti-Slavery Society. Some abolitionists said that slavery was criminal and a sin; they also criticized slave owners of using black women as concubines and ...
