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- ↑ "Letter from W. E. B. Du Bois to F. Grant Gilmore, March 26, 1929". credo.library.umass.edu.
- ↑ "F. Grant Gilmore:author, newspaperman of 1900s" . Democrat and Chronicle . 28 Feb 2006. p. 9 – via Newspapers.com.
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