Talk:Joseph N. Langan

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If possible, would like assistance in creating this. There is a bevy of information on Langan and considering his importance to the civil rights movement, is worthy of a detailed article. However, many of the sources are by default, not going to be internet based. The same also applies for John LeFlore. Someone needs to create an article on him. --Genovese12345 (talk) 19:41, 30 May 2009 (UTC)

More work needed
I came across this article while trying to write one for Clara Stone Fields, the only female legislator in Alabama during this era. I noticed that the current article may have plagarism issues with respect to the encyclopedia of alabama article I've now cited. However, I have limited time and the book I've cited is only available at the Library of Congress, which has 2-hour parking restrictions nearby.Jweaver28 (talk) 21:28, 18 January 2020 (UTC)


 * I've cleaned up this article more, combining the economic/social and racial perspectives of two articles in the recent Mobile History. I also looked at a recent history of the Mobile bar, but that fails to mention Langan, perhaps because his later legal practice involved probate, relatively small real estate transactions, or poverty law and that book concentrates on judges and founders of big firms. I was somewhat surprised that ancestry.com's library edition didn't link to an obituary, and a Mobile librarian also couldn't find one. For what it's worth, the Ashmore book says Langan graduated from Spring Hill College, which would make sense given his military service and the GI Bill, but the 1951 National Guard bio paragraph doesn't list it (although it does list colleges attended by other officers). Thus he may have received an honorary degree.Jweaver28 (talk) 11:50, 24 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Oops. The Mobile history does have an article about Joe Langan, which I'm not citing.Jweaver28 (talk) 15:29, 28 January 2020 (UTC)
 * The Spring Hill college archivist confirmed Langan's graduation in 1951 (which would account for it not being mentioned in the Reserve Officers volume) as well as teaching duties in a private email.Jweaver28 (talk) 16:53, 1 February 2020 (UTC)