Papers. 1846-1930.

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Papers. 1846-1930.

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The collection includes correspondence (1853-1911), some of which is family; speeches (1848-1895, n.d.); writings, accounts, legal documents, cards, invitations, photographs, clippings, and collected items. The bulk of the materials pertains to Langston's personal and professional life. Eight of the twenty speeches express his views on Negro suffrage. Several items provide insights to his relations with Howard University. On the other hand there is little in the papers to document his activities as Minister to Haiti or as President of Virginia Normal Institute.

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Tulane University, Amistad Research Center

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Howard University

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Howard University is a private, federally chartered historically black research university in Washington, D.C. Tracing its history to 1867, from its outset Howard has been nonsectarian and open to people of all sexes and races. The institution was named for General Oliver Otis Howard, a Civil War hero who was both the founder of the university and, at the time, commissioner of the Freedmen's Bureau. The U.S. Congress chartered Howard on March 2, 1867 and much of its early funding came from endow...

Virginia Normal Institute

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Langston, John Mercer, 1829-1897

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John Mercer Langston (December 14, 1829 – November 15, 1897) was an American abolitionist, attorney, educator, activist, diplomat, and politician. An African American, he became the first 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. Born free in Virginia to a freedwoman of mixed race and a white planter father, in 1888 Langston was elected to the U.S. Congress as...