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Collection of letters Dr. Thomas B. Grayson sent to his wife Carrie during the Civil War.
Source: Brazoria County Historical Museum
Letter from freedmen school teacher Watt Bonner to Joseph Welch, superintendent of Freedmen Bureau schools in Texas, dated Nov. 1868.
Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture, Smithsonian Institution
Section of the 1874 Annual Report of the Kansas Board of Commissioners on Public Institutions that details the poor condition of military prisoners received from Texas.
Source: Kansas State Library
Inspection reports detailing the conditions faced by convicts on the Cabiness Farm in March, July and Nov. 1878.
Source: Texas State Library and Archives Commission
Records culled from the Texas State Archives associated with the convict W. Bonner.
Source: Texas State Library and Archives Commission
Map of Sartartia Plantation, the estate of L.A. Ellis, surveyed and drawn by Jno. W. Maxey C.E.
Source: Woodson Research Center, Fondren Library, Rice University
The Jazz Review, Vol. 3, No. 5, from June 1960, featuring a reprinted article by Mack McCormick titled, "A Who’s Who of The Midnight Special."
Source: The Jazz Review, Inc.
1981 article by James Smallwood, Professor Emeritus of History at Oklahoma State University: "Black Education in Reconstruction Texas: the Contributions of the Freedmen's Bureau and Benevolent Societies."
Source: East Texas Historical Journal