honor. Works Selected works: See also African-American officeholders in the United States, 1789–1866 Civil rights movement (1865–1896) List of African-American firsts List of African-American United States representatives Notes References Cheek, William Francis, and Aimee Lee Cheek, John Mercer Langston and the Fight for Black Freedom, 1829-65. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1989. Wagner, Jean, Black Poets of the United States: From Paul Laurence Dunbar to Langston Hughes, University of Illinois Press, 1973, . William Cheek, "A Negro Runs for Congress: John Mercer Langston and the Virginia Campaign of 1888", The Journal of Negro History, 52 (January 1967). W. Cheek, "John Mercer Langston: Black Protest Leader and Abolitionist", Civil War History 16 (March 1970). Attribution: External links "John Mercer Langston", Congressional Biography Langston Biography, Black Americans in Congress, 1870-2007 "John Mercer Langston", Oberlin College biography John Mercer Langston Speeches, Oberlin College speech collection Kevin Mérida, "The 'Obama Before Obama'", Washington Post, June 7, 2008 "Biography of John Mercer Langston" including youthful photograph, AfricanAmericans.com Langston High School Continuation Program in Arlington, Virginia |- |- |- |- 1829 births 1897 deaths 19th-century American politicians Activists from Ohio African-American abolitionists African-American diplomats African-American lawyers African-American members of the United States House of Representatives African-American people in Ohio politics African-American people in Virginia politics African-American politicians during the Reconstruction Era Ambassadors of the United States to Haiti Ambassadors of the United States to the Dominican Republic American people of English descent American people of Native American descent Burials at Woodlawn Cemetery (Washington, D.C.) Free Negroes Howard University faculty Langston family Multiracial affairs in the United States Native American members of the United States Congress Oberlin College alumni Ohio lawyers People from Louisa County, Virginia People from Oberlin, Ohio Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Virginia Underground Railroad people Virginia State University people Washington, D.C., Republicans 19th-century American diplomats 19th-century American lawyers