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- ↑ Nate Blakeslee (12 September 2006). Tulia: Race, Cocaine, and Corruption in a Small Texas Town. New York: PublicAffairs. ISBN 1-58648-454-0.
- ↑ "Tulia Travesty Covered Up By Texas Prosecutors and Courts" . Retrieved 5 January 2008.
- ↑ NPR: Relentless Activist Digs into Racial Controversies
- ↑ "Jena 6 case caught up in whirlwind of distortion, opportunism". kansascity.com. 29 September 2007. Archived from the original on 15 December 2007. Retrieved 5 January 2008.
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