Age of Jim Crow” in Carole Emberton and Bruce E. Baker (eds.) Remembering Reconstruction: Struggles Over the Meaning of America's Most Turbulent Era (Baton Rouge, 2017), 84-108. Behrend, Justin. Reconstructing Democracy: Black Grassroots Politics in the Deep South after the Civil War (Athens, Georgia Press, 2015). Bell, Frank C. "The Life and Times of John R. Lynch: A Case Study 1847–1939", Journal of Mississippi History, 38 (February 1976): 53–67. DeSantis, Vincent P.Republican Face the Southern Question: The New Departure Years, 1877-1897 (Baltimore, 1959) Foner, Eric ed. "Lynch, John Roy" in Freedom's Lawmakers: A Directory of Black Officeholders During Reconstruction, Revised Edition. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1996). . Franklin, John Hope. "Lynch, John Roy" in Dictionary of American Negro Biography, edited by Rayford W. Logan and Michael R. Winston, pp. 407–9. New York: W. W. Norton and Co., 1982. Franklin, John Hope editor, Reminiscences of an Active Life: The Autobiography of John Roy Lynch (Chicago, 1970). Franklin, John Hope. "John Roy Lynch: Republican Stalwart from Mississippi" in Howard Rabinowitz, (ed.), Southern Black Leaders of the Reconstruction Era (Urbana, 1982); reprinted in John Hope Franklin, Race and History: Selected Essays, 1938–1988 (Louisiana State University Press, 1989) "John Roy Lynch" in Black Americans in Congress, 1870–1989. Prepared under the direction of the Commission on the Bicentenary by the Office of the Historian, U.S. House of Representatives. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1991. McLaughlin, James Harold. John R. Lynch, The Reconstruction Politician: A Historical Perspective. Ph.D. diss., Ball State University, 1981. Mann, Kenneth Eugene. "John Roy Lynch: U.S. Congressman from Mississippi", Negro History Bulletin, 37 (April/May 1974): 238–41. Schweninger, Loren. Black Property Owners in the South 1790–1915 (Urbana, Ill., 1990) The Amazing World of John Roy Lynch (Eerdmans Publishing, 2015), a biography for children, written by Chris Barton and illustrated by Don Tate. External links Biography at the African American Registry |- |- 1847 births 1939 deaths Activists for African-American civil rights African-American lawyers African-American members of the United States House of Representatives African-American politicians during the Reconstruction Era African-American state legislators in Mississippi American people of Irish descent 19th-century American slaves Burials at Arlington National Cemetery Illinois Republicans Mississippi lawyers People from Vidalia, Louisiana Historians of the Reconstruction Era Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Mississippi Speakers of the Mississippi House of Representatives Republican Party members of the Mississippi House of Representatives Lawyers from Washington, D.C. Dunning