[1] A very good account of C. B. Ray's literary efforts is given in I. Garland Penn's The Afro-American Press, pp. 32-47.
[2] Papers in the possession of Ray's family.
[3] For further information see manuscripts in the possession of Ray's family.
[4] This convention movement is well treated in J. W. Cromwell's The Negro in American History, pp. 27-46.
[5] Penn, The Afro-American Press, p. 35.
[6] Brown, The Rising Son, p. 473.
[7] Penn, The Afro-American Press, p. 38.
[8] Penn, The Afro-American Press, pp. 39-40.
[9] Ibid., p. 41.
[10] Penn, The Afro-American Press, pp. 42-43.