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Edmond Drago, Black Politicians and Reconstruction in Georgia: A Splendid Failure (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1982).
John M. Matthews, “Jefferson Franklin Long: The Public Career of Georgia’s First Black Congressman,” Phylon 42 (June 1981): 145-56.
“Jefferson Franklin Long (1836-1901).” New Georgia Encyclopedia. http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-3473&sug=y
“Black Legislators during Reconstruction.” New Georgia Encyclopedia. http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-635
Black Americans in Congress: http://baic.house.gov/member-profiles/profile.html?intID=7 African-American Registry: http://www.aaregistry.org/historic_events/view/jefferson-long-
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(1871) Congressman Jefferson F. Long, “Speech On Disorders In The South” http://www.blackpast.org/?q=1871-jefferson-f-long-speech-disorders-south