Tag: John Mercer Langston

  • Accepted socially and legally since slavery, this “rule,” as well as its strict enforcement, created a dynamic leadership pool of Light, Bright and Damn Near White revolutionaries, embraced by the Black community as some of its most vocal and active leaders.

  • Haiti, the Archive, and the Historical Imagination African American Intellectual History Society 2016-03-13 Brandon Bryd, Assistant Professor of History Mississippi State University John Mercer Langston Mathew Brady – Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. Brady-Handy Photograph Collection. http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cwpbh.00690. CALL NUMBER: LC-BH83- 30771 In the fall of 1877, John Mercer Langston laid on his bed…