The ‘Obama Before Obama’
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on June 7th, 2008 4:29 am by HL
The ‘Obama Before Obama’
LOUISA, Va. — Planted in the lawn at the courthouse on West Main Street here is a gray historical marker that draws little attention. It proudly proclaims that the country’s first black elected official was native son John Mercer Langston, born in this central Virginia county, the son of a wealthy…