James Carroll Napier, was an 1872 Howard Law School classmate of John Wesley Cromwell, whose outstanding book, THE NEGRO IN AMERICAN HISTORY: MEN AND WOMEN EMINENT IN THE EVOLUTION OF AMERICANS OF AFRICAN DESCENT (1914), I am now reading; as well as a classmate of Charlotte B. Ray, the first black woman lawyer in America. All were intellectual and spiritual heirs of John Mercer Langston, of Ohio, who founded the Howard Law Department in 1869.
Tuesday, June 9, 2015
JAMES CARROLL NAPIER, BISON BROTHER
James Carroll Napier, was an 1872 Howard Law School classmate of John Wesley Cromwell, whose outstanding book, THE NEGRO IN AMERICAN HISTORY: MEN AND WOMEN EMINENT IN THE EVOLUTION OF AMERICANS OF AFRICAN DESCENT (1914), I am now reading; as well as a classmate of Charlotte B. Ray, the first black woman lawyer in America. All were intellectual and spiritual heirs of John Mercer Langston, of Ohio, who founded the Howard Law Department in 1869.