Committed To Anna R. Langford Community Academy
Published: April 13, 2012
Anna R. Langford was the first black women to serve on the Chicago City Council. Anna R. Langford was a graduate of Chicago Public Schools and Roosevelt University. She became an attorney in 1956 after attending John Marshall Law School. Anna was a civil rights leader; allowing Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. to use her home to plan for a march on Cicero to promote integration. It was Langford's mother's death that began her civil rights crusade. Langford's mother ws a victim of racism. Langford's mother was a white woman, who went to an Ohio hospital suffering from appedicitis, but when the hospital staff saw that she had biracial children, they ordered that she be transferred to a hospital that served blacks and on the way to that hospital Anna's mother appendix burst and she died.
Langford won her first aldermanic election to represent the 16th ward in 1971. Anna langford died in her home in Englewood in 2008. In June 2010 our school name was changed from Nicholas Copernicus to Anna R Langford Community Academy, Home Of The Almighty Lions! Thank you Mrs. Anna R. Langford.