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Anglo-African Newspaper
A major forum for black authors and an important source of knowledge about African American culture, the Anglo-African Newspaper was published by Thomas and Robert Hamilton, the sons of the ...
Benjamin Harrison
(1833–1901)US Republican statesman, 23rd President of the USA (1889–93). He was the grandson of William Henry Harrison.
Charles Henry Langston
(b. c. 1817; d. 14 December 1892), an abolitionist, temperance leader, and educator.Charles Henry Langston was born in Louisa County, Virginia, the son of Captain Ralph Quarles, a white ...
Freedmen's Bureau
To assist the adjustment of newly freed slaves in the post–Civil War South, Congress in March 1865 established the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands under the leadership of ...
George Washington Williams
(1849–1891) U.S. soldier, clergyman, and state legislator. Born in Bedford Springs, Pennsylvania, George Washington Williams lied about his age to join the U.S. Colored Troops in 1864. He saw combat ...
Haiti
House of DessalinesHouse of ChristopheHouse of SoulouqueHeinl, R. D., Jr., and N. G. Heinl, Written in Blood: the Story of the Haitian People, 1492–1971 (Boston, 1978).1804–1806Jacques I ...
Howard University
Howard University—dubbed in its early years as “the capstone of Negro education”—was incorporated in 1867 to provide education for young men and women of any race but especially for freeborn ...
Langston, John Mercer (b. 14 December 1829) Reference library
Encyclopedia of African American History, 1619–1895: From the Colonial Period to the Age of Frederick Douglass
(b. 14 December 1829; d. 15 November 1897), an African American political leader, congressman, and intellectual.
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Langston, John Mercer (1829–1897) Reference library
The Concise Oxford Companion to African American Literature
In his third-person autobiography, From the Virginia Plantation to the National Capitol (1894), John Mercer Langston recounts his
Oberlin College
Founded in 1833 in Oberlin, Ohio, on the principle of educating Americans regardless of race, gender, or class, Oberlin College was one of the few institutions of higher learning that ...
Virginia
The Latina and Latino presence in Virginia is largely new, mostly a matter of mere years. In the early twenty-first century the story is so novel and so rapidly unfolding ...
Washington, D.C.
Tourist mecca and home of the federal government, Washington, D.C. (District of Columbia), contains many of the nation's most revered sites, including the Capitol, the White House, the Supreme Court ...
