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- ↑ Work, Monroe N.; Staples, Thomas S.; Wallace, H. A.; Miller, Kelly; McKinlay, Whitefield; Lacy, Samuel E.; Smith, R. L.; McIlwaine, H. R. (1920). "Some Negro Members of Reconstruction Conventions and Legislatures and of Congress". The Journal of Negro History. 5 (1): 63–119. doi:10.2307/2713503. JSTOR 2713503. S2CID 149610698 – via JSTOR.
- ↑ Woodson, Carter Godwin; Logan, Rayford Whittingham (June 15, 1920). "The Journal of Negro History". Association for the Study of Negro Life and History – via Google Books.
- ↑ McCarthy, Kevin M. (July 24, 2019). African American Sites in Florida. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 9781561649518 – via Google Books.
- ↑ Brown, Canter (June 15, 1998). Florida's Black Public Officials, 1867-1924. University of Alabama Press. ISBN 9780817309152 – via Google Books.
- ↑ "Florida Black Grocers to the Florida Freedmen's Bureau Assistant Commissioner, April 5, 1866".
- ↑ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-03-14. Retrieved 2021-06-15.
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