Dictionary of Virginia Biography: Source list

Sources consulted for the biography of:

John Mitchell Jr.

Biographies 
 

  • William J. Simmons, Men of Mark: Eminent, Progressive and Rising (1887), 314–320 ("I have no fear…" quotation on 318).

 

  • I. Garland Penn, The Afro-American Press, and Its Editors (1891), 183–187, with date of birth.

 

  • W. N. Hartshorn and George W. Penniman, eds., An Era of Progress and Promise, 1863–1910 (1910), 437.

 

  • Ann Field Alexander, Race Man: The Rise and Fall of the "Fighting Editor," John Mitchell Jr. (2002).

, Primary Sources 
 

  • Booker T. Washington, The Negro in Business (1907), 124–125 ("the sane and sensible business men…").

 

  • 1921 election return count in Annual Report of the Secretary of the Commonwealth (1922), 419–422.

 

  • Death Certificate, Richmond City, Bureau of Vital Statistics, Commonwealth of Virginia.

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Secondary Sources 
 

  • Fitzhugh Brundage, "'To Howl Loudly': John Mitchell Jr. and His Campaign Against Lynching in Virginia," Canadian Review of American Studies 22 (1991): 325–341.

 

 

  • Errol Somay, "The Fighting Editor and His Stanley Steamers" (March 1, 2013) and "Set the Way-Back Machine" (April 30, 2014), Fit to Print blog, Library of Virginia.

 

  • Kelley Ewing, "'Stay off the cars'—The Boycott of the Virginia Passenger and Power Company," (July 27, 2012, Fit to Print blog, Library of Virginia.

 

  • Sarah Nerney, "A Knight Unlike any Other: John Mitchell and the Knights of Pythias" (December 15, 2015), Fit to Print blog, Library of Virginia.

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Newspapers 
 

  • Indianapolis Freeman, August 23, 1890 ("no stronger race man…")

 

  • Richmond Planet, November 16, 1889 ("thought it would be a shame…"); February 8, 1890 ("The best remedy for a lyncher…"); December 5, 1891 ("…nationalized yourself"); February 3, 1894 ("Lynching is a barbarous practice…"); April 7, 1894 ("When the Negro learns…"); April 24, 1897 ("It is a fact known to man…"); April 9, 1904 ("The 'Jim-Crow street-car service…," "If the entire colored population…," and "stay off the street-cars"); July 14, 1923 ("persecuting Negro leaders…") November 20, 1937.

 

  • Luther P. Jackson, "John Mitchell—Anti-Lynching Apostle," Norfolk Journal and Guide, Sept. 8, 1945.

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Obituaries 
 

  • New York Age, December 7, 1929 (with some errors); December 21, 1929 (partial reprint of obituary published in Richmond St. Luke Herald).

 

  • Pittsburgh Courier, December 7, 1929.

 

  • Richmond News Leader, December 4, 1929.

 

  • Richmond Times-Dispatch, December 4, 1929.

 

  • Richmond Planet, December 7, 1929 (account of funeral and "Life's great adventure…" quotation in editorial tribute).