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- ↑ "San Bernardino Sun 26 November 1943 — California Digital Newspaper Collection". cdnc.ucr.edu.
- ↑ "THE GOODWIN FAMILY LEGACY | The Oklahoma Journalism Hall of Fame". okjournalismhalloffame.com.
- ↑ Company, Johnson Publishing (August 13, 1964). "Jet". Johnson Publishing Company – via Google Books.
- ↑ Broussard, Jinx Coleman (June 7, 2013). African American Foreign Correspondents: A History. LSU Press. ISBN 9780807150566 – via Google Books.
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