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- ↑ "Freedom Road (1979)". Archived from the original on July 16, 2014. Retrieved March 4, 2017.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) - ↑ "Ali does 'Roadwork' on 'Freedom Road'". Ebony. Johnson Publishing Company. October 1979. pp. 102–106. Retrieved October 23, 2013.
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