Canter Brown Jr. is an American historian, professor and author. He was born in Fort Meade, Florida, and earned his degrees[which?] at Florida State University. He has taught at Florida A&M University and has worked at Fort Valley State University in Fort Valley, Georgia. He wrote a book about Florida's African American public officials from 1867 until 1924.[1][2]

Brown has written on Florida and southern United States history, including Florida's Peace River Frontier, earning him the Florida Historical Society's Rembert W. Patrick Award, and Ossian Bingley Hart: Florida's Loyalist Reconstruction Governor, winner of the Certificate of Commendation of the American Association of State and Local History, about Ossian B. Hart, one of Florida's Reconstruction era governors.[3]

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  1. ^ "2 Aug 1998, 80 - The Tampa Tribune at Newspapers.com". Newspapers.com.
  2. ^ "Political history of blacks fills pages".
  3. ^ Canter Brown, Jr. Archived May 30, 2010, at the Wayback Machine Center for Florida History
  4. ^ Coles, David J.; Brown, Canter (2001). "Reviewed work: Tampa in the Civil War and Reconstruction, Canter Brown, Jr". The Georgia Historical Quarterly. 85 (2): 317–319. JSTOR 40584427.
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