John Mercer Langston, the first African American congressman from Virginia, pictured ca. 1860-1875.
This file appears in: Civil Rights Tour: Housing - Langston Terrace Dwellings
This file appears in: Civil Rights Tour: Housing - Langston Terrace Dwellings
Civil Rights Tour: Housing - Langston Terrace Dwellings
Langston Terrace Dwellings opened in 1938 as one of the nation’s earliest federally funded public housing projects for lower income residents and only the second one to be built for African Americans. Planned during the Depression, with its housing…