{"id":503,"date":"2024-06-05T10:55:20","date_gmt":"2024-06-05T10:55:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qpulse.tech\/langston\/?page_id=503"},"modified":"2025-12-02T01:50:43","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T01:50:43","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/qpulse.tech\/langston\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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John Mercer Langston High School was the high school for African-American students from 1936 to 1970 in Danville, Virginia during the period when racial segregation in public education was commonplace in the American South.<\/p>

Schools like Langston \u2013 which were numerous all across the South \u2013 despite the historical prevalence of racial segregation, discrimination and injustice in the United States, met the challenges of the times. They prepared students for entry into a racist and oft-times dangerous world, and trained them to meet it with hard work and fierce determination.<\/p>

Administered and staffed by a legion of Historically Black College and University (HBCU) graduates, Langston and schools like it propelled its students forward, academically, socially and professionally. Langston, and schools like it, became beacons for fierce competition, accomplishment, dignity and pride and became the entr\u00e9e to a world of possibilities.<\/p>

We, the Langston alumni, are eternally indebted to Langston and grateful for all the principals, teachers, parents, friends and supporters from our community that made it possible.<\/p>

Langston, Dear Langston, we sing, we sing, we sing, of You.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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\nWith your bitter, twisted lies,
\nYou may trod me in the very dirt
\nBut still, like dust, I’ll rise.

\n\nDoes my sassiness upset you?
\nWhy are you beset with gloom?
\n\u2019Cause I walk like I’ve got oil wells
\nPumping in my living room.

\n\nJust like moons and like suns,
\nWith the certainty of tides,
\nJust like hopes springing high,
\nStill I’ll rise.

\n\nDid you want to see me broken?
\nBowed head and lowered eyes?
\nShoulders falling down like teardrops,
\nWeakened by my soulful cries?

\n\nDoes my haughtiness offend you?
\nDon’t you take it awful hard
\n\u2019Cause I laugh like I’ve got gold mines
\nDiggin\u2019 in my own backyard.

\n\nYou may shoot me with your words,
\nYou may cut me with your eyes,
\nYou may kill me with your hatefulness,
\nBut still, like air, I\u2019ll rise.

\n\nDoes my sexiness upset you?
\nDoes it come as a surprise
\nThat I dance like I’ve got diamonds
\nAt the meeting of my thighs?

\n\nOut of the huts of history\u2019s shame
\nI rise
\nUp from a past that\u2019s rooted in pain
\nI rise
\nI’m a black ocean, leaping and wide,
\nWelling and swelling I bear in the tide.

\n\nLeaving behind nights of terror and fear
\nI rise
\nInto a daybreak that\u2019s wondrously clear
\nI rise
\nBringing the gifts that my ancestors gave,
\nI am the dream and the hope of the slave.
\nI rise
\nI rise
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ABOUT THE SCHOOL John Mercer Langston High School was the high school for African-American students from 1936 to 1970 in Danville, Virginia during the period when racial segregation in public education was commonplace in the American South. Schools like Langston \u2013 which were numerous all across the South \u2013 despite the historical prevalence of racial […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"elementor_header_footer","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-503","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpulse.tech\/langston\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpulse.tech\/langston\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpulse.tech\/langston\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpulse.tech\/langston\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpulse.tech\/langston\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=503"}],"version-history":[{"count":80,"href":"https:\/\/qpulse.tech\/langston\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3507,"href":"https:\/\/qpulse.tech\/langston\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/503\/revisions\/3507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpulse.tech\/langston\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}