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Listen: The Bluegrass & Old-Time ProgramEngraved portrait of Timothy Thomas Fortune
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Accompanying note: "Born to slave parents, Sarah Jane & Emanuel Fortune, Oct. 3, 1856."
"Made himself useful in the office of the Marianna Courier after the war."
"After family moved to Jax., worked in composing room of the Jax. Courier then The Union."
"Attended Stanton School and worked at Jax. P.O. Appointed in 1874 as mail-route agent between Jax. & Chattahoochee. Resigned 1875 and was appt.d Spec. Insp. of Customs for the Eastern Dist. of Del. Resigned 1875 and entered Howard University Joined composing room of The People's Advocate at Wash. & married Carrie C. Smiley. Taught school in Florida. Joined NY's Weekly Witness. Edited The Rumor. Pub. NY Freeman."
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