Canter Brown Jr.

Canter Brown Jr. is an American historian, professor and author. He was born in Fort Meade, Florida. He graduates from Fort Meade Middle-High School. He earned 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.

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.

He wrote Florida's Black Public Officials, 1867-1924 documenting the many early black political leaders in Florida especially during the Reconstruction era.

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  1. ↑ "Dr. Edgar Canter Brown Jr".
  2. ↑ "2 Aug 1998, 80 - The Tampa Tribune at Newspapers.com". Newspapers.com.
  3. ↑ "Political history of blacks fills pages".
  4. ↑ Canter Brown, Jr. Archived May 30, 2010, at the Wayback Machine Center for Florida History
  5. ↑ Coles, David J.; Brown, Canter (2001). "Reviewed work: Tampa in the Civil War and Reconstruction, Canter Brown, Jr". The Georgia Historical Quarterly. 85 (2): 317–319. JSTOR 40584427.