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- ↑ "Library Exhibits :: Jesse Ewing Glasgow, Jr". exhibits.library.villanova.edu. Retrieved December 12, 2021.
- ↑ Levy, Valerie D.; Curtright, Lauren (2005). "Sarah Mapps Douglass". Voices from the Gaps. hdl:11299/166156 . Retrieved December 12, 2021.
- ↑ Wyman, Rachel. "The Philadelphia Catto: Bridging the Racial Gap in the City of Brotherly Love". p. 25. Retrieved December 12, 2021.
- ↑ Lapsansky, E. J. (1993). Discipline to the Mind. Philadelphia's Banneker Institute, 1854–1872. Vol. 117. Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography. pp. 83–102.
- ↑ Delivered in the First African Presbyterian Church, in Philadelphia, on the fourth Sabbath of May, 1857, with a History of the Church from the first organization, including a brief Notice of Rev. John Gloucester, its First Pastor, Philadelphia: Joseph M. Wilson, 1857,
also, An Appendix, containing 'Sketches of all the Coloured Churches in Philadelphia'
- ↑ "Benjamin Banneker Institute Historical Marker". www.hmdb.org.
- ↑ "PA-133 Benjamin Banneker Institute". photos.historical-markers.org.