File:John Mercer Langston - Brady-Handy.jpg
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| Description | John Mercer Langston. Library of Congress description: "Prof. John Langston, Howard University". | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date | between 1860 and 1875 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Source | Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. Brady-Handy Photograph Collection. http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cwpbh.00690. CALL NUMBER: LC-BH83- 30771 <P&P>[P&P] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Deutsch: John Mercer Langston (* 14. Dezember 1829 in Louisa County, Virginia, USA; † 15. November 1897 in Washington D.C.) war ein schwarzer Anwalt und Politiker. Er war neben Frederick Douglass einer der bekanntesten und einflussreichsten Bürgerrechtler des 19. Jahrhunderts. Er war der erste Afroamerikaner, welcher in Virginia ins Repräsentantenhaus gewählt wurde.
English: John Mercer Langston ( December 14 1829 – November 15 1897) was an American abolitionist and U.S. Congressman from Virginia. He was the first black man in the United States to be elected to public office when in 1855 he was elected as a town clerk in Ohio.
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This work is from the Brady-Handy collection at the Library of Congress. According to the library, there are no known copyright restrictions on the use of this work. Mathew Brady died in 1896 and Levin C. Handy died in 1932. Photographs in this collection are in the public domain in the United States as works published before 1929 or as unpublished works whose copyright term has expired (life of author + 70 years).
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