Ovide Gregory

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
  1. "Negro members of the last republican legislature in Alabama". The Montgomery Advertiser. 21 September 1928. p. 4. Retrieved 29 January 2021.
  2. 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.
  3. "Clipped From Daily State Sentinel". Daily State Sentinel. 2 April 1868. p. 4. Retrieved 29 January 2021.
  4. "So-called legislature". Jacksonville Republican. 28 March 1868. p. 1. Retrieved 29 January 2021.
  5. "Highly distinguished arrivals". Alabama Reporter. 12 August 1868. p. 1. Retrieved 29 January 2021.
  6. Fitzgerald, Michael W. (September 1, 2002). Urban Emancipation: Popular Politics in Reconstruction Mobile, 1860–1890. LSU Press. ISBN 9780807128374 – via Google Books.
  7. Slap, Andrew L.; Towers, Frank (December 2015). Confederate Cities: The Urban South during the Civil War Era. ISBN 9780226300344.
  8. "Dead - Ovide Gregory". The Weekly Advertiser. 7 September 1869. p. 3. Retrieved 29 January 2021.
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