Meet John Mercer Langston who is noted as the first black man to become a lawyer when he passed the bar in Ohio in 1854. He is also noted as being one of the first African Americans ever to serve public office in America. John Mercer Langston is also the great-uncle of famed poet of the Harlem Renaissance, Langston Hughes. information sited from www.blackpast.org www.history.com photo courtesy of www.brownhelm.org
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