Beverly, History of Alabama, 202, 208.
161
Not returned for the 1875-1876 session.
162
Furnished by Major John R. Lynch, May 19, 1915.
163
Ibid., pp. 481-862.
164
Reynolds, Reconstruction in South Carolina, pp. 76-79.
165
In 1895 South Carolina again revised her constitution. In the convention held for this purpose there were found Negro delegates, viz.: Thomas E. Miller, L. R. Reed, Robert Smalls, W. J. Whipper and James Wigg, all from Beaufort County. Smalls and Whipper had been delegates in the 1868 convention. (Reported by H. H. Wallace.)
166
Furnished by Mr. H. A. Wallace, a former page in the South Carolina House of Representatives in the Reconstruction Period.
167
Furnished by H. A. Wallace, a former page in the South Carolina House of Representatives in the Reconstruction Period.
[21] Names marked with asterisk not in lists given in Reynold's Reconstruction in South Carolina, pp. 107-108, 394-396.
168
Reynolds, Reconstruction in South Carolina, pp. 106-108.
169
Reynolds, Reconstruction in South Carolina, pp. 394-396.
170
Furnished by H. A. Wallace, a former page in the South Carolina House of Representatives in the Reconstruction Period.
171
Ibid.
172
Ibid.
173
George H. White, North Carolina, member of 55th and 56th Congresses, as the last Negro member. (Editor.)
174
He was a page in the South Carolina House of Representatives in the Reconstruction Period.
175
There were no colored members of the Tennessee Senate.
176
1868, 1870, see North Carolina list, Pasquotank County.
177
This account was taken from James G. Thompson's Papers by his daughter, Caroline B. Stephen, of Washington, D.C. Special Correspondence of the New York Tribune.
178
This dissertation was in 1917 submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate School of Arts and Literature of the University of Chicago, in candidacy for the degree of Master of Arts by Henry S. Williams.
The following original sources were used in the preparation of this manuscript: Reports of Superintendent of the Public Schools of the State of Missouri, 1866-1917; Session Laws of the State of Missouri, 1866-1913; Reports of the U.S. Commissioner of Education, 1870-1916; U.S. Census Reports, 1860-1910; The Missouri Republican, 1866-1870; Journal of Education, Vols. I and II (St. Louis, Missouri, 1879); Revised Statutes of Missouri, 1879-1909; Proceedings and Occasional Papers of the Slater Fund (Baltimore, Maryland); Missouri Historical Society Collections, Vols. II and III; Asa E. Martin, Our Negro Population (Kansas City, Missouri, 1913); N.H. Parker, Missouri as it is in 1867 (Philadelphia, 1867); Am. Annual Cyclopedia, 1870-1877; Annual Reports of the Board of Education of St. Louis, 1867-1916; Annual Reports of the Board of Education, of Kansas City, 1870-1915.
The secondary sources consulted follow: Lucian Carr, American Commonwealths, Missouri a Bone of Contention (Boston, 1894); C.R. Barnes, Switzler's Illustrated History of Missouri (St. Louis, 1889); W.B. Davis, and D.S. Durrie, An Illustrated History of Missouri (Cincinnati, Ohio); S.B. Harding, Life of George R. Smith (Sedalia, Missouri, 1904); W.E.B. DuBois, The Negro Common School (Atlanta, Georgia); C.L. Butt, History of Buchanan County (Chicago, 1915); H.A. Trexler, Slavery in Missouri, 1804-1865 (Baltimore, Maryland, 1914); C.G. Woodson, The Education of the Negro Prior to 1861, (New York, 1915); History of Calloway County (St. Louis, 1884); History of Cole, Moniteau, Morgan, Benton, Miller, Maries, and Orange Counties, Missouri (Chicago, 1889); J.T. Shaff, History of St. Louis City and County (Philadelphia, 1885); R.A. Campbell, Campbell's Gazetteer of Missouri (St. Louis, 1875); Encyclopedia of the History of St. Louis (New York, 1889); Missouri Historical Review, Vols. I, II, IV, VI, VII, and IX (Columbia, Missouri); The Negro Year Book (Tuskegee, Alabama, 1917).
179
Parker, N.H., Missouri as it is in 1867, p. 424.
180
Woodson, C.G., Education of the Negro Prior to 1861, p. 159-168.
181
Missouri State Convention of 1865, Art. IX.
182
Laws of State of Missouri, Adjourned Session 23d General Assembly, p. 177.
183
Laws of the State of Missouri, op. cit., p. 191.
184
Ibid., p. 173.
185
Ira Divoll, see Schaff, Hist. of City and County of St. Louis, Vol. I, p. 843; R.D. Shannon, see Davis, W.B., Ill. Hist. of Mo., p. 587.
186
Ibid., p. 550.
187
Ann. Reports of Supt. of Pub. Schools, 1871-'72-'73-'74.
188
8th Ann. Report of Supt. of Pub. Schools, 1874, p. 37.
189
7th Ann. Report of Supt. of Pub. Schools, 1873, p. 250.
190
7th Ann. Report of Supt. of Schools, 1873, p. 281.
191
Ibid., p. 256.
192
Journal of Education, Vol. II, No. 1, p. 5, St. Louis, 1869.
193
Report of Commissioner of Education, 1870, p. 202.
194
N. H. Parker, Missouri as it is in 1865, p. 53. Op. cit.
195
Report of Commissioner of Ed., 1871, p. 260.