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Sources consulted for the biography of:Joseph Thomas Wilson (1837–1890)
Biographical Information
- Wilson's testimony, with full name, in Papers in the Matter of James H. Platt, Jr. vs. John Goode, Jr., Second Congressional District of Virginia, 44th Congress, 1st Session, House of Representatives, Misc. Document 65, Serial 1700 (1876), 199–202.
- Richmond Daily Dispatch, August 20, 1875
- New York Freeman, January 24, 1885 (with month and year of birth)
- I. Garland Penn, The Afro-American Press, and Its Editors (1891), 174–180 (with "surpasses that of any other work …" on 179).
- Marriage Register, Norfolk City, Bureau of Vital Statistics, Commonwealth of Virginia Department of Health, Record Group 36, Library of Virginia.
- Death Register, Norfolk City, Bureau of Vital Statistics, Commonwealth of Virginia Department of Health, Record Group 36, Library of Virginia.
Primary Sources
- Compiled Service Military Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers Who Served With the U.S. Colored Troops, Records of the Adjutant General's Office, Record Group 94, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.
- Joseph T. Wilson Pension File, Federal Pension Application Files, Certificates 78,530 and 324,127, Records of the Veterans Administration, Record Group 15, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C. (with John Mitchell 1890 quotation).
- Equal Suffrage: Address from the Colored Citizens of Norfolk, Va., to the People of the United States (1865), with "give us the suffrage …" on 4.
- Joseph T. Wilson, The Black Phalanx (1888), with some autobiographical details, frontispiece portrait, and "shocking crime …" quotation on 349, "Fort Pillow massacre" quotation on 418, and "war of extermination …" quotation on 316.
Secondary Sources
- Michael Hucles, "Many Voices, Similar Concerns: Traditional Methods of African-American Political Activity in Norfolk, Virginia, 1865–1875," Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 100 (1992): 543–566.
Newspapers
- Norfolk True Southerner, April 19, 1866 ("are we to be forbidden …" quotation)
- Richmond Daily Dispatch, April 19, 1867 ("platform of human rights" quotation); August 11, 1881; August 12, 1881
- Washington Post, July 22, 1881
- Lynchburg Virginian, August 11, 1881 ("stand by their colors" quotation); August 12, 1881
- Richmond Daily Whig, August 11, 1881; August 12, 1881
- Richmond Dispatch, April 16, 1890
- Richmond Planet, July 23, 1898 ("every patriotic colored man …" quotation)
Obituaries and Memorials
- Richmond State, September 25, 1891
- Norfolk Virginian, September 26, 1891
- Richmond Planet, September 26, 1891; October 3, 1891
- New York Age, October 10, 1891
- Eulogy by John Wesley Cromwell, In Memorium … (1891), 7–12 ("proudest monument" quotation on 11).
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