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- 1 2 3 Mississippi Black History Makers, 231-233; George A. Sewell and Margaret L. Dwight, University Press of Mississippi, 2nd Ed. (1984)
- 1 2 3 Academic Couples: Problems and Promises by Marianne A. Ferber & Jane W. Loeb (1997)
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