Langston is a town in Logan County, Oklahoma, United States, and is allocation of the Oklahoma City Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 1,724 at the 2010 census, an growth of 3.2 percent from the figure of 1,670 in 2000. Langston is house to Langston University, the solitary historically black school in Oklahoma.

Langston was founded on April 22, 1890, by Edward P. McCabe, an African-American diplomatic figure from Kansas. McCabe helped improvement a migration of black settlers from southern U.S. states who hoped to run off discrimination by creating a majority-black allow in in what was after that the Territory of Oklahoma. He named the town for John Mercer Langston, a black zealot of the 51st United States Congress from Virginia. McCabe used traveling salesmen and African-American newspapers to advertise lots for sale in Langston, and the events which accompanied the sale of these lots stipulated that their re-sale could deserted be to further African-Americans.

Langston was an everything black town, one of fifty identifiable black towns and settlements created in Oklahoma amongst 1865 to 1920.

By 1891, Langston had a population of 200, which included a preacher, doctor, and schoolteacher. By 1892, the town had 25 businesses, with a bank and a public school. A Roman Catholic mission was conventional in 1893 by Rev. Bishop Theophile Meerschaert and the Benedictine Sisters. The town had a telephone system in serve in 1895. In 1897, the Oklahoma Territorial Legislature passed a achievement creating the Colored Agricultural and Normal University at Langston (which unconventional became Langston University).