Looking southwest at the rear/north elevation of Langston School, with Slater School in the background
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John Mercer Langston School: This building is an exceptional example of an African American school built during DC’s segregated school system era.
John Mercer Langston School was built in 1902 to handle the overflow of students from neighboring John Fox Slater School. Named for John Mercer Langston (1829-1897), the first African American…