Canter Brown Jr. is an American historian, professor and author. He was born in Fort Meade, Florida. He graduates from Fort Meade Middle-High School.[1] He earned 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.[2][3]
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.[4]
- ^ "Dr. Edgar Canter Brown Jr".
- ^ "2 Aug 1998, 80 - The Tampa Tribune at Newspapers.com". Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Political history of blacks fills pages".
- ^ Canter Brown, Jr. Archived May 30, 2010, at the Wayback Machine Center for Florida History
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