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The university was renamed as Langston University in 1941 in honor of John Mercer Langston (1829–1897), civil rights pioneer, first African-American member of Congress from Virginia, founder of the Howard University Law School, and American consul-general to Haiti. Poet Melvin B. Tolson taught at Langston from 1947 until 1964.
John Mercer Langston (December 14, 1829 – November 15, 1897) was an American abolitionist, attorney, educator, activist, diplomat, and politician.He was the founding dean of the law school at Howard University and helped create the department.
Langston University: Langston: Oklahoma: 1897 Public Founded as Oklahoma Colored Agricultural and Normal University Yes Lawson State Community College: Bessemer: Alabama: 1949 Public Yes LeMoyne–Owen College: Memphis: Tennessee: 1862 Private [k] Founded as LeMoyne Normal and Commercial School [12] (elementary school until 1870) Yes Lincoln ...
Jackson is only the second female president at Langston, which was founded in 1897, 10 years before Oklahoma became a state. JoAnn Haysbert was the first, serving in the role from 2005 to 2011.
In 2005, after a 25-year career at Hampton, she succeeded Earnest Holloway to become Langston University's 15th president, serving through the end of 2011, when Kent Smith succeeded the post. In 2012, she returned to Hampton to become its first Chancellor and Executive Vice-President, while also resuming her post as Provost.
Distinguished Langston University men's basketball head coach; College Basketball Hall of Fame 2014 [5] Penny Hardaway: Kappa Beta: Former Orlando Magic guard; 1996 Summer Olympics gold medalist; Current head basketball coach at University of Memphis; [10] Marques Haynes: Alpha Pi: Former Harlem Globetrotter; Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall ...
The city was named after John Mercer Langston, a black Virginia Congressman who had pledged his support for a black college in Langston City (Taylor). Finally in 1897, a Colored Agricultural and Normal School was opened, this was later called Langston University. The city was founded on the idea to help stop racial persecution.
A graduate of Langston University and the University of Chicago, he had become involved in the Black Power movement while teaching at Howard University. After being fired as chair of the Black Studies program at San Francisco State, in November 1969 Hare and Robert Chrisman co-founded the journal, The Black Scholar: A Journal of Black Studies ...