Avant, Fenton Garrett Davis. My Tallahassee. (1983)

*Barnes, Althemese. Oral Histories conducted by the John Gilmore Riley Center/Museum 1996-2015. They Led The Way. (Publication by the John Gilmore Riley Center/Museum)

Cochran, Thomas E. History of Public School Education in Florida. (1921)

Groene, Bertram. Ante-Bellum Tallahassee. (1981)

Hamburger, Susan. Teaching Tenant Farm Children: Rural Education in Leon County, Fl. In The Early 20^th Century.  

Henderson, Marvin. History of Lincoln High School (1869-1969): Prepared for the Lincoln High School Class of 1967 50^th Reunion.

Leon County Education Association: Committee on History of Education in the Leon County School System; A Sketch of Leon County School System.  (1957).

Morris, Joan. Early Leon Schools. (1989).

Olson, Karen: “ Concord School will be gone but its fans won’t ever forget”; Tallahassee Democrat, (5/13/1985).

Palmer, Kathryn B. A Cruel Hoax: How Brown v. Board of Education Undermined Florida’s Black Education: An Examination of Two Counties from 1954-1971.(2014).

Pyburn, Nita Katharine. Documentary History of Education in Florida, 1822-1860. (1951).

Rhodes, Francis A. A History of Education in Leon County Florida, (1946)

Teague, Linda. The Lion’s Pride: A Pictorial and Anecdotal History of Leon High School (2007, 2018).

United States Department of the Interior National Park Service: National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet (Florida’s Historic Black Public Schools).

Wikipedia, (4/5/22); Chaires School; Fort Braden School; Sail High School; Leon County Schools.

Documents

Biennial Report of State Superintendent of Public Instruction, 1904; 1906; 1912, 1914, 1915.

Leon County School Board Minutes1895-1911.

Leon County School Board Biennial Report, 1895-1911.

Periodicals

Pensacola Gazette and West Florida Advertiser, March 20, 1827, “Leon Academy, 1827.”

Florida Sentinel, September 26, 1843: Leon Academy; October 22, 1844: “The Female Academy of Leon County.”

Florida State University is in the process of digitizing all of the Leon County School Board minutes and they will be available for public use online in 2023, or when digitizing is complete.

*If there is any discrepancy in some of the information it is because there were various sources used and some variation occurred