Ovide Gregory, sometimes written as Ovid Gregory,[1] (d. September 2, 1869) was a politician in Alabama during the Reconstruction era. A Creole, he was multilingual and freeborn.[2] He served in the Alabama House of Representatives.[3]
There was open hostility and racial to Gregory and the other black member of the legislator, with some questioning the legislator and constitution,[4] with racism openly expressed on the front pages of papers.[5]
He supported legislation to outlaw African Americans "going" with Creoles. He was a rival of John Carraway.[6] He advocated for more schools.[7]
He died September 2, 1869, in Pascagoula, Mississippi, after an illness that had persisted for six months.[8]
References
edit- ^ "Negro members of the last republican legislature in Alabama". The Montgomery Advertiser. 21 September 1928. p. 4. Retrieved 29 January 2021.
- ^ Bailey, Richard (January 1, 2010). Neither Carpetbaggers Nor Scalawags: Black Officeholders During the Reconstruction of Alabama, 1867-1878. NewSouth Books. ISBN 9781588381897 – via Google Books.
- ^ "Clipped From Daily State Sentinel". Daily State Sentinel. 2 April 1868. p. 4. Retrieved 29 January 2021.
- ^ "So-called legislature". Jacksonville Republican. 28 March 1868. p. 1. Retrieved 29 January 2021.
- ^ "Highly distinguished arrivals". Alabama Reporter. 12 August 1868. p. 1. Retrieved 29 January 2021.
- ^ Fitzgerald, Michael W. (September 1, 2002). Urban Emancipation: Popular Politics in Reconstruction Mobile, 1860–1890. LSU Press. ISBN 9780807128374 – via Google Books.
- ^ Slap, Andrew L.; Towers, Frank (December 2015). Confederate Cities: The Urban South during the Civil War Era. ISBN 9780226300344.
- ^ "Dead - Ovide Gregory". The Weekly Advertiser. 7 September 1869. p. 3. Retrieved 29 January 2021.