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Timothy Thomas Fortune was an orator, civil rights leader, journalist, writer, editor and publisher. Fortune started his education at Marianna's first school for African Americans after the Civil War. He worked both as a page in the state senate and apprenticed as printer at a Jacksonville newspaper during the time that his father, Emanuel, was a Reconstruction politician in Florida.

Nationality: American
Birth Date: 3 Oct 1856
Death Date: 2 June 1928
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The Clime of My Birth

The author marvels at the natural beauty of the Florida Landscape.