Papers, [microform] 1854-1896.

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Papers, [microform] 1854-1896.

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The collection consists of correspondence, texts of speeches, miscellaneous receipts and information about legal matters and banking affairs. The papers of his wife Caroline M. Wall Langston are also included which include primarily correspondence and condolences and tributes upon the death of her husband.

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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...

Langston, Caroline M. Wall, b. 1833.

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