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- ↑ Report of the Senate Fact-Finding Committee on Un-American Activities. Vol. 5. California Legislature Senate. 1949. p. 545.
- 1 2 Davis, Frank Marshall (2006). Tidwell, John Edgar (ed.). Writings of Frank Marshall Davis: A Voice of the Black Press. Univ. Press of Mississippi. p. 24. ISBN 978-1604733846.
- 1 2 Tracy, Steven C. (2011). Writers of the Black Chicago Renaissance. University of Illinois Press. p. 177. ISBN 978-0252093425.
- ↑ Morgan, Stacy I (2004). Rethinking Social Realism: African American Art and Literature, 1930–1953. ISBN 978-0820325798.
- ↑ "Pepper Writing for Red Weekly". Spokane Daily Chronicle. Vol. 61, no. 182. 1947-04-21. p. 2.
- ↑ Library of Congress: Chronicling America – The Chicago Star (Chicago, Ill.) 1946–1948
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