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Langston, John Mercer (1829–1897) Reference library
The Concise Oxford Companion to African American Literature
...Langston, John Mercer ( 1829–1897 ), autobiographer , orator , lawyer , abolitionist , politician and public official , and educator . In his third-person autobiography, From the Virginia Plantation to the National Capitol ( 1894 ), John Mercer Langston recounts his career as one of the most influential African American leaders of the nineteenth century. Born in Virginia and educated at Oberlin, Langston became in 1854 the first African American admitted to the Ohio bar and in 1855 the first elected to public office in the United States (town...
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
..., John Mercer ( b. 14 December 1829 ; d. 15 November 1897 ), an African American political leader, congressman, and intellectual. Born in Virginia to a wealthy white planter and a slave mother, John Mercer Langston was one of the most influential African Americans of the nineteenth century. Widely regarded by contemporaries and historians alike as second in importance only to Frederick Douglass , Langston actually superseded the venerable Douglass in certain ways. Although Douglass enjoyed more widespread renown, Langston held more government...
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Langston, Charles Henry (b. c. 1817) Reference library
Encyclopedia of African American History, 1619–1895: From the Colonial Period to the Age of Frederick Douglass
...; Langston, John Mercer ; Lynching and Mob Violence ; National Conventions of Colored Men ; North Star ; Oberlin College ; Oratory and Verbal Arts ; Political Participation ; Reason, Charles L. ; Reform ; Temperance ; Union Army, African Americans in ; Vashon, George Boyer ; and Violence against African Americans . Bibliography Blassingame, John W. , ed. The Frederick Douglass Papers . Series 1, Speeches, Debates, and Interviews . 5 vols. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1979–1992. Cheek, William , and Aimee Lee . John Mercer Langston and...
Mulatto (1935) Reference library
The Oxford Companion to American Theatre (3 ed.)
...strangles Norwood. A lynch mob is formed but thwarted by Robert's suicide. Although the play was criticized as diffuse and contrived, its basic drama and McClendon's fine performance (her last) gave the work a substantial run. [James Mercer] Langston HUGHES ( 1902–67 ), the celebrated African‐American poet, also wrote the folk musicals Simply Heavenly ( 1957 ) and Tambourines to Glory ( 1963 ) and several plays, including Little Ham ( 1936 ), Joy to My Soul ( 1937 ) and Front Porch ( 1938 ), though none were as successful as Mulatto . Hughes wrote...
Hughes, (James Mercer) Langston (1 Feb 1902) Reference library
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The Grove Dictionary of American Music (2 ed.)
...(James Mercer) Langston ( b Joplin, MO , 1 Feb 1902 ; d New York, NY , 22 May 1967 ). Writer , poet , and playwright . Although he is best known as an acclaimed African American poet, novelist, and playwright, music played an important role in his career, as reflected in his writings about African American music and the numerous lyrics and librettos that he wrote for various performing arts venues. He attended Columbia University (1921–2) and Lincoln University, Pennsylvania (BA 1929). In 1937 he created the opera libretto for William Grant...
Hughes, Langston Reference library
The Oxford Encyclopedia of African Thought
...during the 1930 s, when a number of his plays were produced. Many of his volumes of poetry were published in the 1940 s. Hughes’s parents, James Nathaniel Hughes and Carrie Mercer Langston Hughes, were married in 1899 in Oklahoma and later settled in Joplin, Missouri. However, his parents’ marriage proved unsuccessful. Hughes was named after the famous abolitionist John Mercer Langston, his mother’s uncle. Hughes’s early childhood was spent in a variety of locations, including Lawrence, Kansas; Topeka, Kansas; Lincoln, Illinois; and Cleveland, Ohio. He also...
Oberlin College Reference library
Encyclopedia of African American History, 1619–1895: From the Colonial Period to the Age of Frederick Douglass
...racial equality. Both free blacks and fugitive slaves found refuge in the town of Oberlin, which by 1860 was one-fifth African American. In 1857 voters elected John Mercer Langston , an African American graduate of Oberlin College, as township clerk. In 1858 a biracial group of townspeople, including many students and faculty, openly defied the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 to rescue John Price from slave catchers seeking to return him to Kentucky. The Oberlin-Wellington Rescue and the ensuing trial of the rescuers attracted national attention,...
Hughes, Langston (b. 1 February 1902) Reference library
Encyclopedia of African American History 1896 to the Present
...Langston ( b. 1 February 1902 ; d. 22 May 1967 ), poet , novelist , short-story writer , essayist , playwright , journalist , columnist , and cultural leader . James Mercer Langston Hughes was the preeminent African American poet of the twentieth century, but he wrote in almost every literary genre during his five-decade career. He was born in Joplin, Missouri, but spent his childhood years in Lawrence, Kansas, with his maternal grandmother, Mary Langston , while his mother, Carrie Langston Hughes , a teacher, looked for employment and marital...
