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- ↑ "Knickerbocker Now A.C. Logan Hospital". The New York Times . February 5, 1974.
- ↑ Judith Cummings (April 14, 1978). "Harlem's Logan Hospital Struggles On". The New York Times .
- ↑ C. Gerald Fraser (December 4, 1971). "Knickerbocker Hospital Says Debts May Force It to Close". The New York Times .
- ↑ "Knickerbocker Hospital Dance to Honor Physician". The New York Times . April 23, 1970.
- ↑ Kent Anderson Leslie, "Introduction", Woman of Color, Daughter of Privilege, Amanda America Dickson, 1849-1893, University of Georgia Press, 1996, p. 18
- 1 2 GoogleBooks excerpt from Composer's voices from Ives to Ellington: an Oral History of American Music, p. 404, Vivian Perlis & Libby Van Cleve, 2005, Yale Univ. Press.