Northeast of the city is Langston University, the state's historically black college ( HBCU ).

When Langston University of Oklahoma was admitted into the conference two years later, it began the migration of state-supported institutions into the SWAC.

* John Mercer Langston ( 1829 – 1899 ), abolitionist, activist, educator and politician — first dean of Howard University law school, first president of Virginia State University, in 1888 first black to be elected to the United States Congress from Virginia.

* John Mercer Langston ( 1829 – 1899 ), abolitionist, activist, educator and politician-in 1855 first black person in Ohio elected to public office, first dean of Howard University law school, first president of Virginia State University, in 1888 first black person to be elected to the United States Congress from Virginia.

* John Mercer Langston ( 1829 – 1899 ), abolitionist, activist, educator and politician – first dean of Howard University law school, first president of Virginia State University, in 1888 first black person to be elected to the United States Congress from Virginia.

Langston is home to Langston University, the only historically black college in Oklahoma.

John Mercer Langston, who founded the Law School at Howard University, was its first president.

* John Mercer Langston, first president of Virginia State University in 1882 and US Congressman from Virginia

* Wagner, Jean, Black poets of the United States: from Paul Laurence Dunbar to Langston Hughes, University of Illinois Press, 1973, ISBN 0-252-00341-1

Langston University is an institution of higher learning located in Langston, Oklahoma, USA.

Though located in a rural setting just 10 miles ( 16 km ) east of Guthrie, Langston also serves an urban mission with University Centers in both Tulsa and Oklahoma City.

Langston University was created as a result of the second Morrill Act in 1890.

Through the years Langston University has developed slowly but surely.

The conference was established in 2000 and its charter members included Haskell Indian Nations University, Langston University, Northwestern Oklahoma State University, Southwestern Assemblies of God University, and Peru State College.

* 1921: The Congo is mentioned in Langston Hughes's poem " The Negro Speaks of Rivers ".

Langston Hughes relays in the " Negro Ghetto " ( 1931 ) and " The Heart of Harlem " ( 1945 ): " The buildings in Harlem are brick and stone / And the streets are long and wide ,/ But Harlem ’ s much more than these alone ,/ Harlem is what ’ s inside.

Langston is a town in Jackson County, Alabama, United States, and is included in the Huntsville-Decatur Combined Statistical Area.

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Langston is 7th from right in front row, with hat over his chest.

Langston is a town in Logan County, Oklahoma, United States, and is part of the Oklahoma City Metropolitan Statistical Area.

Langston is located at ( 35. 941398 ,-97. 257846 ).

* Langston Hughes, poet and writer, for whom Langston Hughes Broadway in Joplin is named

Langston argues that philosophers of virtue ethics have unnecessarily neglected conscience for, once conscience is trained so that the principles and rules it applies are those one would want all others to live by, its practise cultivates and sustains the virtues ; indeed, amongst people in what each society considers to be the highest state of moral development there is little disagreement about how to act. Emmanuel Levinas viewed conscience as a revelatory encountering of resistance to our selfish powers, developing morality by calling into question our naive sense of freedom of will to use such powers arbitrarily, or with violence, this process being more severe the more rigorously the goal of our self was to obtain control.

In the prequel and sequel Rhett Butler's People his parents are called Langston and Elizabeth, his brother is Julian.

Because the Moties learned about the Langston Field, enabling them to establish colonies independently, it seems the only option is to send the Fleet to eradicate the entire Motie species.

Even the Moties ' improvement on the Langston Field — causing it to expand as it absorbs energy so as to faster dissipate heat — is useless in this environment.

The Langston Field is also used within the fusion drive, to contain the reaction sufficiently intense to provide enough energy to power the ship.

The story is set in the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s, and the major characters include Eddie Wesley, a Harlem writer ; Aurelia, the woman Eddie loves, who becomes a professor at Cornell University ; and a number of real-life historical figures, including Richard Nixon and Langston Hughes.

Streets there include Crummell, Dunbar, Henson, Augusta, Douglass, Langston, and Washington, named for the famous African-Americans.

He named the town for John Mercer Langston, a black member of the 51st United States Congress from Virginia.

Ronnie Dunn has a great-niece named Jaidan Langston.

'" ( named after a line from Langston Hughes's poem " Harlem " from " Montage of a Dream Deferred ," referred to as " Lenox Avenue Mural " by Zinn ), covers the Civil Rights movement.

In 1885 Langston returned to the US and Virginia, where he was named the first president of Virginia Normal and Collegiate Institute, a historically black college ( HBCU ) at Petersburg.

In 1890 Langston was named as a member of the board of trustees of St Paul Normal and Industrial School, a historically black college, when it was incorporated by the Virginia General Assembly.

* Oklahoma's Langston University is named in his honor, as are

In 2008, a detailed monograph describing the skull of the Pipestone Creek pachyrhinosaur, and penned by Philip J. Currie, Wann Langston, Jr., and Darren Tanke, classified the specimen as a second species of Pachyrhinosaurus, named P. lakustai after its discoverer.

In rural Montcalm County, M-91 is once again named Greenville Road and it curves to the west of Turk Lake and continues due north to the community of Langston.

As white people began going to Harlem to watch black dancers, according to Langston Hughes: " The lindy-hoppers at the Savoy even began to practice acrobatic routines, and to do absurd things for the entertainment of the whites, that probably never would have entered their heads to attempt for their own effortless amusement.

Thirty-seven men were indicted, but only two, Simeon M. Bushnell and Charles Henry Langston, were tried in federal court for interfering with the marshal in carrying out the Fugitive Slave Law.

In addition, there was a growing " cast of characters " including an NBC electrician who played " Father Ed ," a priest who would get flustered when his cue cards were deliberately turned upside-down ; Canadian comedian Murray Langston, who as " The Unknown Comic " wore a paper bag over his head ( with cut-outs for his eyes, mouth, and even a box of Kleenex ), and " Gene Gene the Dancing Machine " ( Gene Patton ), arguably the most popular member of the " cast ", another NBC stagehand who would show up and dance whenever the band played the song " Jumpin ' at the Woodside ".

The following June Red Channels, a pamphlet edited by former F. B. I agents which became the basis for entertainment industry blacklist of the 1950s, listed Lomax as an artist or broadcast journalist sympathetic to Communism ( others listed included Aaron Copland, Leonard Bernstein Yip Harburg, Lena Horne, Langston Hughes, Burl Ives, Dorothy Parker, Pete Seeger, and Josh White ).

Quarles descendants, Charles Henry Langston and John Mercer Langston were American abolitionists whom pressed for greater freedom and suffrages among the African Americans in the 19th century.

Eugene R. Warren presented arguments for the appellant, Epperson, and Don Langston, an Assistant Attorney General for Arkansas, argued on behalf of the state of Arkansas.

Various features of this society, particularly the form of government, the existence of Alderson Drive and Langston Field technology, and the limited access to Murcheson's Eye on the other side of the Coalsack, were ideal for their purposes.

* Pitcher Mark Langston pinch-ran for designated hitter Hubie Brooks in the top of the 9th inning, scored on a single, and then was in the remainder of the extra-inning game as the DH finishing with two strikeouts in a game at the Chicago White Sox on June 10, 1992.

After being traded to the Seattle Mariners by the Expos for Mark Langston during the 1989 season, Johnson led the AL in walks for three consecutive seasons ( 1990 – 92 ), and in hit batsmen in 1992 and 1993.

Nonetheless, in 1888 John Mercer Langston, president of Virginia State University at Petersburg, was elected to the US Congress as the first African American from Virginia ( and the last for nearly a century.

* Isaac Julien: " Looking for Langston " ( 1989 )-Young Soul Rebels ( 1991 )

The Langston Hughes Library is home to the Black Heritage Reference Center, which contains materials " written by, about, for, with and related to Black Culture.

In 1947 Tolson began teaching at Langston University, a historically black college in Langston, Oklahoma, where he worked for the next 17 years.