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Sources consulted for the biography of:Lewis Lindsey (1843–1908)
Primary Sources
- Birth and death dates in Death Certificate, Richmond City, Bureau of Vital Statistics, Commonwealth of Virginia Department of Health, Record Group 36, Library of Virginia
- Spelling of last name confirmed by signature in Pay Vouchers for Constitutional Conventions, 1829–1868, Auditor of Public Accounts (1776–1928), inventory entry 134, Library of Virginia
- Lindsey to John C. Underwood, May 31, 1868, Papers of John C. Underwood, 1865–1870, Robert Alonzo Brock Collection, Huntington Library, San Marino, California (microfilm at Library of Virginia)
- Lindsey correspondence in William Mahone Papers, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
- Robert Peel Brooks to William Mahone, January 16, 1882, William Mahone Papers, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
- Debates and Proceedings of the Constitutional Convention of the State of Virginia (1868): 9, 91–92, 447–448, 484–485, 486, 487, 519, 520, 521, 575, 706
- 1869 election in General Orders and Circulars, Headquarters First Military District, 1869 (1870), "Summary of the result of the election for members of the House of Delegates of Virginia, held on the 6th day of July, 1869," 17
- Philip S. Foner and Ronald L. Lewis, eds., The Black Worker: A Documentary History from Colonial Times to the Present, vol. 2, The Black Worker During the Era of the National Labor Union (1978), 111–114
Secondary Sources
- Richard L. Hume, "The Membership of the Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1867–1868: A Study of the Beginnings of Congressional Reconstruction in the Upper South," Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 86 (1978): 482
- Peter J. Rachleff, Black Labor in the South: Richmond, Virginia, 1865–1890 (1984)
Newspapers
- Quotations in Richmond Daily Dispatch, November 11, 1867
- Constitutional convention election returns in Richmond Daily Dispatch and Daily Richmond Whig, both October 25 and 26, 1867
- Caricature of Lindsey in the Richmond Southern Opinion, December 7, 1867
- Biographical information in Richmond Times, February 23, 1896
- Biographical information in Richmond Dispatch, September 7, 1902
- Named one of Richmond's most important African American leaders in the May 26, 1934 Richmond Planet
Obituaries
- Richmond News Leader, January 6, 1908
- Washington Post, January 6, 1908
- Richmond Planet, January 11 and 18, 1908
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