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- ↑ "David Lopez Jr.: Builder, Industrialist, and Defender of the Confederacy" (PDF). The Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives. 2012-08-29. Retrieved 2022-05-07.
- ↑ "David Lopez, Jr". Mapping Jewish Charleston. Retrieved 2024-01-30.
- ↑ Ciapha Dennis Jr, Rickey (13 September 2021). "SC Synagogue Remembers Enslaved Black People Who Built It". NPR. South Carolina Public Radio. Retrieved 2022-05-07.
- ↑ "Charleston, South Carolina". Jewish Virtual Library . Retrieved 2022-05-07.
- ↑ "Hebrew Orphan Society of Charleston". South Carolina Encyclopedia . Retrieved 2024-01-30.
