Draft:Benjamin Yordy
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Benjamin Yordy was "Colored" a public official in Alabama.[1]
He was a delegate to the 1867 Alabama Constitutional Convention.[2][3] He represented Sumter County, Alabama.[4] Convention's Education committee [5]
Freedmens Bureau offical[6][7]
Is this him? Weaver in Pennsylvania?[8]
Walter Lynwood Fleming wrote that he never saw the county he represented at the constitutional convention.[1]
References[edit]
- ^ a b Fleming, Walter Lynwood (February 18, 1905). "Civil War and Reconstruction in Alabama". Columbia University Press – via Google Books.
- ^ Owen, Thomas Mcadory (1921). "History of Alabama and Dictionary of Alabama Biography".
- ^ "1868 Constitution Delegates | We the People Alabama". Wethepeoplealabama.
- ^ "Official Journal of the Constitutional Convention of the State of Alabama: Held in the City of Montgomery, Commencing on Tuesday, November 5th, A.D. 1867". 1868.
- ^ Ziegler, Edith (6 October 2010). Schools in the Landscape: Localism, Cultural Tradition, and the Development of Alabama's Public Education System, 1865-1915. ISBN 9780817317096.
- ^ Bailey, Richard (January 2010). Neither Carpetbaggers nor Scalawags: Black Officeholders During the Reconstruction of Alabama, 1867-1878. ISBN 9781588381897.
- ^ Fleming, Walter Lynwood (1905). Civil War and Reconstruction in Alabama. ISBN 9780231906586.
- ^ Anderson, Clarita (February 18, 2002). "American Coverlets and Their Weavers: Coverlets from the Collection of Foster and Muriel McCarl : Including a Dictionary of More Than 700 Coverlet Weavers". Colonial Williamsburg – via Google Books.
- This draft is in progress as of May 12, 2023.