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Sources consulted for the biography of:Alexander Quincy Franklin (1852–1924)
Primary Sources
- Birth and death dates in Death Certificate, Charles City County, Bureau of Vital Statistics, Commonwealth of Virginia Department of Health, Record Group 36, Library of Virginia.
- Registers of Signatures of Depositors, Freedman's Savings and Trust Company, 1865–1874, Records of the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, Record Group 101, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.
- Charles City Co. marriage license.
- Richmond Daily Whig, March 18, 1881 (quotation).
- A few letters from Franklin in William Mahone Papers, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Duke University, Durham, N.C.
- 1889 election in Secretary of the Commonwealth, Election Records, 1776–1941, no. 31, Accession 26041, State Government Records Collection, Library of Virginia.
Secondary Sources
- Brief biography in Luther Porter Jackson, Negro Office-Holders in Virginia, 1865–1895 (1945), 17–18.
- Allen B. Doggett Jr., "Three Negro Communities in Tidewater Virginia," Hampton Bulletin 19 (Oct. 1923): 30–45.
- Willnette Davis Carter, "The Development of Education for Negroes in Charles City County, Virginia, During the Period 1870–1950" (M.S. thesis, Virginia State College, 1952), 60–63.
- J. P. Carter et al., Organization and Development of Elam Baptist Church, 1976 (1976), 31–32.
- John M. Craig, "Community Cooperation in Ruthville, Virginia, 1900–1930," Phylon 48 (1987): 132–140.
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