John M Langston

John Mercer Langst

John Mercer Langston (December 14, 1829 November 15, 1897) was an American abolitionist, attorney, educator, and political activist. He was the first dean ...

Dixie Diaspora: An Anthology of Southern Jewish History (Judaic Studies Series)

Regional Jewish history at its best.This book is an anthology of essays designed to introduce readers to key issues in this growing field of scholarship and to encourage further study. Divided into five sections--“Jews and Judaism,” “Small Town Life,” “Business and Governance,” “Interaction,” and “I...

John Mercer Langston and the Fight for Black Freedom, 1829-65 (Blacks in the New World)

Drylongso: A Self-Portrait of Black America

In writing his Self-Portrait of Black America, anthropologist, folklorist, and humanist John Gwaltney went in search of “Core Black People”—the ordinary men and women who make up black America—and asked them to define their culture. Their responses, recorded in Drylongso, are to American oral histor...

The Dissenters: Voices From Contemporary America

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From The Virginia Plantation To The National Capital: Or The First And Only Negro Representative In Congress From The Old Dominion

Published in 1894, this is the biography of John Mercer Langston, an African-American who served as the the first U.S. Representative to Washington D.C.

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American abolitionist. Cofounder of the Ohio Anti-Slavery Society.