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- 1 2 3 4 5 6 Dia, Wall (April 4, 2018). "1968 Kansas city Race Riots: Then & Now". KSHB41. Retrieved August 14, 2023.
- 1 2 "Strife in the Streets: Kansas City Remembers 1968". Kansas City Public Library. 2018-03-26. Retrieved August 13, 2023.
- ↑ Rhodes, Joel P. (2001). "It Finally Happened Here: The 1968 Riot in Kansas City, Missouri". The Voice of Violence: Performative Violence as Protest in the Vietnam Era. Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. 25–31. ISBN 0-275-97055-8 – via Google Books.
- ↑ Burnes, Brian; Rice, Glenn E. (August 10, 2007). "Riots of 1968 were a watershed moment for KC". Kansas City Star. Archived from the original on April 9, 2008. Retrieved April 12, 2008.
- 1 2 "Rioting in City Takes Five Lives". The Kansas City Star. Kansas City, MO. 1968-04-10. Archived from the original on 2011-12-20. Retrieved August 13, 2023.
