And Langston Hughes’s great uncle.
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Christina Proenza-Coles
The great statesman & lawyer John Mercer Langston was a Virginia native, son of a formerly enslaved woman & her former owner, co-founded the National Equal Rights League in 1864, helped draft the Civil Rights Act of 1875, 1st president of Virginia State University 1885, elected to US Congress 1890.
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