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- ↑ Opportunity, United States Congress Senate Select Committee on Equal Educational (June 20, 1971). "Hearings, Reports and Prints of the Senate Select Committee on Equal Educational Opportunity". U.S. Government Printing Office – via Google Books.
- ↑ "Four African American teachers at the Conecuh County training school in Evergreen, Alabama". Umbra Search African American History.
- ↑ Caver, Joseph (October 20, 2020). From Marion to Montgomery: The Early Years of Alabama State University, 1867-1925. NewSouth Books. ISBN 9781588383617 – via Google Books.
- ↑ "Negro Year Book". Negro Year Book Publishing Company. June 20, 1919 – via Google Books.
- ↑ Frazier, Augusta Jones (1949). An Experiment in Reading Guidance of Eleventh and Twelfth Grade Pupils at the Conecuh County Training School, Conecuh County, Alabama. Alabama State University.
- ↑ Crosby, Emma Brown (1951). A Study of Certain Factors that Contribute to Retardation in Achieving American History Among Eleventh Grade Pupils at the Conecuh County Training School, Evergreen, Alabama. Alabama State University.
- ↑ Ivery, Clara B. (1958). A Study of the Language Errors Made in Letter Writing of One Hundred 11th Grade Pupils of Conecuh County Training School, Evergreen, Alabama. Alabama State University.
- ↑ Cheatham, Micheal (1953). A Study of the Female Graduate of Conecuh County Training School with Recommendations for Curriculum Revisions, 1946-1951. Alabama State University.