2024 Langston’s AXE

Monday, September 9th at Langston Golf Course in Washington, DC

9 AM Check-In | 10 AM Shotgun | 2 PM Reception & Awards

The fourth annual Langston’s Axe golf tournament will be held on Monday, September 9th at the historic Langston Golf Course in Washington, DC. The Axe is our annual fundraising golf tournament and celebration of the historic golf course and its community. We hope you will join us to celebrate and raise money to support the future of the course so it can be rehabilitated in the coming years.

REGISTRATION

Registration includes a tee gift, 18 holes of golf, cart, a post round reception, and more.

Note: $1,350 of the registration fee is tax deductible.

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BEHIND THE NAME

John Mercer Langston (1829 – 1897) was an American abolitionist, attorney, educator, activist, diplomat, and politician. An African American, he became the founding dean of the law school at Howard University, the first Black law school in the country. He was also the first president of what is now Virginia State University. 1n 1888, Langston was the first African American elected to the US Congress from Virginia and was the last for another century. Langston Golf Course was eventually named after him.

The celebrated Harlem Renaissance poet, Langston Hughes, memorialized his great uncle’s decades-long fight against racial discrimination when he described John Langston’s actions on discovering a street barrier erected by local whites to prevent him from passing through their section of the capital city. Hughes wrote:

“He got out, took his axe and chopped it down while the coachman held his gloves. From then on, without hindrance, he rode behind his snow- white horses through the streets of Washington – the ebony spokes of his highly lacquered carriage wheels gleaming.”

A LOOK AT PAST EDITIONS OF LANGSTON’s AXE

SPONSORSHIP OPPORTUNITIES

Sponsorships for the 2024 Langston’s Axe are available. Please email Katy Cannon Pearce for more information.