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Canter Brown Jr. is a historian, professor and author. He was born in Fort Meade, Florida, and earned his degrees[which?] at Florida State University. He has taught at Florida A&M University and has worked at Fort Valley State University in Fort Valley, Georgia. He wrote a book about Florida's African American public officials from 1867 until 1924.[1][2]

Brown has written on Florida and southern United States history, including Florida's Peace River Frontier, earning him the Florida Historical Society's Rembert W. Patrick Award, and Ossian Bingley Hart: Florida's Loyalist Reconstruction Governor, winner of the Certificate of Commendation of the American Association of State and Local History, about Ossian B. Hart, one of Florida's Reconstruction era governors.[3]

Bibliography

  • The Supreme Court of Florida, 1917-1972 (2007) co-authored with Walter Manley
  • None Could Have Richer Memories: Polk County Since 1940 (Tampa, 2004)
  • In the Midst of All That Makes Life Worth Living: Polk County to 1940 (Tallahassee, 2001)
  • Laborers in the Vineyard of the Lord: The Beginnings of the AME Church in Florida, 1865-1895 (Gainesville, 2001) with Larry E. Rivers.
  • Cracker Times and Pioneer Lives: The Florida Reminiscences of George Gillett Keen and Sarah Pamela Williams (Columbia, 2000) with James M. Denham
  • The Supreme Court of Florida and Its Predecessor Courts, 1821-1917 (1998) co-authored with Walter Manley
  • Florida's Black Public Officials, 1867-1924, Tuscaloosa (1998)
  • Ossian Bingley Hart: Florida's Loyalist Reconstruction Governor, Baton Rouge (1997)
  • Fort Meade, 1849-1900 (Tuscaloosa, 1995)
  • Florida's Peace River Frontier, Orlando (1991)
  • Mary Edwards Bryan : Her Early Life and Works by Canter Brown Jr. and Larry Eugene Rivers
  • Henry Bradley Plant: Gilded Age Dreams for Florida and a New South by Canter Brown Jr.
  • Tampa in Civil War and Reconstruction by Brown, Canter, Jr.

References

  1. ^ "2 Aug 1998, 80 - The Tampa Tribune at Newspapers.com". Newspapers.com.
  2. ^ https://www.tampabay.com/archive/1998/08/23/political-history-of-blacks-fills-pages/
  3. ^ Canter Brown, Jr. Archived May 30, 2010, at the Wayback Machine Center for Florida History
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