John Mercer Langston (December 14 1829 - November 15 1897) was an American abolitionist and U.S. Congressman from Virginia. He was one of the first blacks in the United States to be elected to public office when in 1855 he was elected as a town clerk in Ohio. Langston was born in Louisa County, Virginia, the son of Ralph Quarles, a white plantation owner, and Lucy Langston, a slave of mixed African and Native American background. Wikipedia
...Selected Speeches Given By John Mercer Langston (1829-1897) The World's Anti-Slavery Movement: Its Heroes and its Triumphs A lecture delivered at Xenia and Cleveland, Ohio, August 2nd and 3rd... www.oberlin.edu/external/EOG/LangstonSpeeches/langston_me...
John Mercer Langston, a graduate of Oberlin College and Oberlin resident for 15 years, was a black leader of conviction and influence, a visionary reformer, and an accomplished statesman and lawyer. www.oberlin.edu/external/EOG/OYTT-images/JMLangston.html
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