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dents, faculty members, and administrators,
as well as local government officials and
community members. Chancellor James An
derson presented Dr. Kelli Cardenas Walsh,
a member of the North Carolina Historical
Marker Program Committee, with a resolu
tion saluting Lewis Leary. Afterwards a group
of FSLF students gathered at the foot of the
covered marker to reveal its declaration.
“I think I was fortunate in that my first
meeting on the committee we had two mark
ers for this area come up for a vote,” says
Dr. Walshj an assistant professor of history
at FSU. “The Omar Ibn Said Marker at the
(Masjid Omar Ibn Sayyid) Mosque and this
one.”
“Knowing this is my area and also think
ing that historically these two events are very
important, I voted affirmatively to support the
markers going here,” Dr. Walsh added.
Dr. Walsh-joined with community mem
bers Adam Beyah and Melvin Lewis to form
a committee to organize the unveiling dedica
tion ceremony for the Lewis Leary Historical
Marker. Often markers are erected with little
to no fanfare, so it is up to the community to
celebrate it.
So why now in 20II?
“The staff of historians in Raleigh (with the
historical marker program) were doing their
research and recognized a missed opportunity
to recognize an important historical period,”
said Dr. Walsh. “It was this staff that submit
ted Lewis Leary. If it hadn’t been for them
and what they do we still wouldn’t have it.
Dr. Walsh explained that any number of
people expressed knowledge of these events
after the newspaper articles and they could
have submitted the request years ago follow
ing the established guidelines, but many are
not aware of this program or how it works.
“Part of my job here is to create that
awareness, that everyone has the op
portunity to submit (relevant historical
narratives connected to the commu
nity),” she said.
Dr. Hargrove explained the long wait this
way: “Brown was seen as a villain, as a pa
riah in the South, but as a hero in the North
with the Union soldiers singing a battle hymn
honoring his heroics. That is until about the
I890’s throu^ the I920’s. With the advent
of the Dunning School of Reconstruction
founded by William A. Dunning, and films
like the I9I5 release of ‘Birth of a Nation’
the southern image began to supplant the hero
narrative across the North. Only in the 1960s
with the so-called ‘Negro revisionist school’
did Brown ascend back to the place he was
in 1859.”
“Forty years or more ago that marker
would have been pulled down,” Dr. Hargrove
matter-of-factly emphasized.
This wraps up the connection from John
Brown to Lewis Leary to FSU.
So how does poet Langston Hughes get
woven into the fabric of this narrative? John
Langston, who brought Lewis Leary and John
Brown together, had an older brother named
Charles Henry Langston. Charles Langs
ton married Lewis Leary’s widow, helping
to raise Lois. They went on to have another
daughter Caroline Mercer Langston, who is
Langston Hughes mother.