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Sources consulted for the biography of:Amos Andre Dodson (1856–1888)
Primary Sources
- Correspondence in William Mahone Papers, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina (quotations in Dodson to Mahone, December 7, 1887).
- Secretary of the Commonwealth, Election Records, 1776–1941, no. 416, Accession 38055, State Government Records Collection, Library of Virginia.
Secondary Sources
- Biography in Luther Porter Jackson, Negro Office-Holders in Virginia, 1865–1895 (1945), 12, 52 (portrait).
- Harold S. Forsythe, "'But My Friends Are Poor': Ross Hamilton and Freedpeople's Politics in Mecklenburg County, Virginia, 1869–1901," Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 105 (1997): 416–421.
Newspapers
- Washington, D.C., People's Advocate, October 6, 1883; October 27, 1883 (biographical article with portrait)
- New York Globe, March 8, 1884; March 15, 1884; September 27, 1884
- New York Freeman, February 7, 1885
- Marriage in Knoxville Journal, December 2, 1888
Obituary
- Knoxville Journal, December 27, 1888
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