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John Mercer Langston

(Langston, John Mercer, 1829-1897)

John Mercer Langston (December 14, 1829 – November 15, 1897) was an African-American abolitionist, attorney, educator, activist, diplomat, and politician. He was the founding dean of the law school at Howard University and helped create the department. He was the first president of what is now Virginia State University, a historically black college. He was elected a U.S. Representative from Virginia and wrote From the Virginia Plantation to the National Capitol; Or, the First and Only Negro Representative in Congress From the Old Dominion. (From Wikipedia)

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From the Virginia plantation to the national capitol : or the first and only Negro representative in congress from the old dominion (American publishing company, 1894), by John Mercer Langston (page images at HathiTrust)
Souvenir journal of the 35th national emancipation celebration (M.L. Robinson?, 1898), by historical and emancipation association of Virginia Langston national monument and Robert B. Robinson (page images at HathiTrust)

Books by John Mercer Langston:

Langston, John Mercer, 1829-1897: Emancipation and Enfranchisement: The Work of the Republican Party (1875) (multiple formats at archive.org)

Additional books by John Mercer Langston in the extended shelves:

Langston, John Mercer, 1829-1897: Freedom and Citizenship. (R.H. Darby, 1883), also by Jeremiah Eames Rankin (page images at HathiTrust)
Langston, John Mercer, 1829-1897: From the Virginia plantation to the National Capitol; an autobiography. (Johnson Reprint Corp., 1968) (page images at HathiTrust)
Langston, John Mercer, 1829-1897: From the Virginia plantation to the national capitol : or the first and only Negro representative in congress from the old dominion (American publishing company, 1894) (page images at HathiTrust)
Langston, John Mercer, 1829-1897: The patriot dead : oration ([Norfolk, Va.] : "Cailloux" Post, No. 7, G.A.R., Dept. of Virginia, [1873?], 1873), also by Randall K. Burkett (page images at HathiTrust)
Langston, John Mercer, 1829-1897: A speech on "Equality before the law" (Printed at the Democrat Book and Job Printing House, 1866) (page images at HathiTrust)

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