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- ↑ Negro in Mississippi 1865-1890 page 6
- ↑ Fredrickson, George M., "Two Southern Historians", American Historical Review 1970 75(5): 1387–1392. in JSTOR, quotation on p. 1387. The two Southern historians of the title are Green and David M. Potter.
- ↑ Downey, Matthew T. (1970). "Reviewed work: Democracy in the Old South and Other Essays by Fletcher Melvin Green, J. Isaac Copeland". Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society. 63 (3): 326–328. JSTOR 40190676.
- ↑ Wright, B. F. (August 1931). "Constitutional Development in the South Atlantic States, 1776-1860. By Fletcher M. Green. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. 1930. Pp. xiv, 328.)". American Political Science Review. 25 (3): 754–755. doi:10.2307/1946993. JSTOR 1946993. S2CID 142148885.