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- 1 2 3 "African American National Biography (AANB)". The Hutchins Center for African & African American Research . Retrieved 11 December 2020.
- ↑ Gates, Henry Louis; Higginbotham, Evelyn Brooks (2008), The African American national biography, New York Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0-19-516019-2
- ↑ Gates, Henry Louis; Higginbotham, Evelyn Brooks (2013), The African American national biography: Supplement 2008-2012, New York Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0-19-516019-2
