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They Said I Couldn't Do It: John Mercer Langston, Young Black Lawyer in A White Man's World olha individual memberships in fact experienced a rich'Black boys don't need schoolin', ' said the orphan's guardian. It's 1843, Ohio. Blacks can't vote, have almost no rights, and as for going to school! What's the point? But John Mercer Langston yearns to learn. His heart is set on attending college. His illiterate older brother finally relents. John enrolls at Oberlin, the most radical college in Ohio. But what can he do with that education? Be a lawyer? Ridiculous! Law schools slam their doors in his