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Sources consulted for the biography of:Rosa Dixon Bowser (1855–1931)
Primary Sources
- Family information provided by granddaughter-in-law McEva Bowser (2000).
- Marriage Register, Richmond City, Bureau of Vital Statistics, Commonwealth of Virginia Department of Health, Record Group 36, Library of Virginia.
- Rolls of Registered Colored Voters, Lee Ward, 6th Precinct (1920), Richmond City Election Records, Library of Virginia.
- Death Certificate, Richmond City, Bureau of Vital Statistics, Commonwealth of Virginia Department of Health, Record Group 36, Library of Virginia.
Secondary Sources
- Biographical information in D. W. Culp, ed., Twentieth Century Negro Literature (1902), insert between 176 and 177 (including portrait).
- "Rosa D. Bowser: Talent to Spare, Talent to Share," Richmond Literature and History Quarterly 1 (fall 1978): 45–46 (giving middle name as Lewis).
- Richmond Afro-American, Feb. 21, 1981; March 14, 1981.
- National Federation of Afro-American Women, A History of the Club Movement among the Colored Women of the United States of America (1902), 39, 42, 53, 62, 85–87, 122.
- Lauranett Lee, "More than an Image: Black Women Reformers in Richmond, Virginia, 1910–1928" (master's thesis, Virginia State University, 1993), 16–31.
Publications
- Bowser, "Some of Our Needs," Hampton Negro Conferences, 1897, State and National Organizations, Record Group 5, Hampton University Archives, abstracted in Southern Workman and Hampton School Record 26 (1897): 177–178.
- Bowser, "What Role Is the Educated Negro Woman to Play in the Uplifting of Her Race?" in Culp, ed., Twentieth Century Negro Literature, 177–182.
Obituaries
- Death notice in Richmond Times-Dispatch, Feb. 9, 1931.
- Norfolk Journal and Guide, Feb. 14, 1931.
- Richmond Planet, Feb. 14, 1931.
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