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- ↑ A picture of the school is included among the official Rosenwald Fund papers housed at Fisk University. It can be seen at http://rosenwald.fisk.edu/?module=search.details&set_v=aWQ9Mzgz&school_historic_name=Grand Bay&button=Search&o=0
- 1 2 Abraham Aamidor (May 5, 2009). "Rosenwald Schools in Alabama". The Encyclopedia of Alabama. Auburn University. Retrieved August 15, 2011.
- ↑ See, Gaillard, Frye, Hagler, Sheila, Denniston, Peggy, In the Path of the Storms: Bayou La Batre, Coden, and the Alabama Gulf Coast,(The University of Alabama Press (2008), p. 65 found online at https://books.google.com/books?id=JrLvpuTwq_AC&dq=grand+bay+elementary+school+for+colored+children&pg=PT27
- ↑ See, Pictures in slide presentation, p.10, online at http://www.grandbay.org/Presentation.pdf Archived 2009-08-16 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ See, Rosenwald Fund records at Fisk University, online at http://rosenwald.fisk.edu/?module=search.details&set_v=aWQ9Mzgz&school_historic_name=Grand Bay&button=Search&o=0