wahl, amanda wahl, john mercer langston's wife, carrie wahl langston, they were suffrage activists. >> i read this. when we see these dinner gatherings and just the luminaries of the people that were there, we see a galaxy of activists and people we all know, we see an interracial environment and don't see segregation inside the home. indeed, at one point wahl invites to his home a young man who is a white cousin on the slave side of the family. they have a high time, and the young man writes home that had never been in a finer home or met finer people. >> and his cousins never forgave him for that. >> that's true. you talk about that, the night at the wahl home on howard hill is a spectacular thing. there's music, conversation, internationally known names, the daytime is different, is it not? yes. so when wahl is practicing law, he is basically scraping for clients in the -- in the criminal courts in washington. and you know, life for any african-american and life for an african-american who had known the kind of power and society that o.s.b. wahl had known was a life of continuing i