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- ↑ "History of Booker T. Washington School in New Port Richey, Florida". www.fivay.org.
- ↑ ""We Wanted Some Basic Human Rights": The Civil Rights Struggle in Tampa : Part One · USF Library Special & Digital Collections Exhibits". exhibits.lib.usf.edu.
- ↑ "PDF Booker T. Washington High School Yearbook · USF Library Special & Digital Collections Exhibits". exhibits.lib.usf.edu.
- ↑ Elementary, Booker T. Washington. "Booker T. Washington History". Booker T. Washington Elementary.