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Joshua Johnson

Joshua joined the Association in 2021 as a Public History Fellow in the History of Slavery and Its Legacies in Washington, DC. He is a first-year Public History master's student at American University. He received his bachelor's degree in Africana Studies and Classics at Cornell University in 2021. Joshua has broad interests in digital media and Afrofuturism.

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    NAACP and the White House

    The Board of Directors of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) met with President Lyndon B. Johnson at the White House on June 24, 1964. The forty-five minute meeting took place in the Cabinet Room of the West Wing.1 The meeting was off the record, so no official press coverage or documentation of the conversation exists. However, White

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    John Mercer Langston

    In 2021, the Arlington County Board voted to change the name of Lee Highway, named after Confederate General Robert E. Lee, to Langston Boulevard in honor of John Mercer Langston, the first Black congressman from Virginia.1 Langston’s work as a civil rights activist led to several federal appointments by United States presidents and multiple White House visits. John M. Langston’s ad