Canter Brown Jr.

Canter Brown Jr. is an American historian, professor and author.

He graduates from Fort Meade Middle-High School.

He wrote a book about Florida's African American public officials from 1867 until 1924.

[2][3] Brown has written on Florida and southern United States history, including Florida's Peace River Frontier, earning him the Florida Historical Society's Rembert W. Patrick Award, and Ossian Bingley Hart: Florida's Loyalist Reconstruction Governor, winner of the Certificate of Commendation of the American Association of State and Local History, about Ossian B. Hart, one of Florida's Reconstruction era governors.

[4] He wrote Florida's Black Public Officials, 1867-1924 documenting the many early black political leaders in Florida especially during the Reconstruction era.