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- ↑ Ralph E. Luker (1991). Social Gospel in Black and White: American Racial Reform, 1885-1912. Univ of North Carolina Press. p. 312. ISBN 978-0-8078-4720-6 . Retrieved 14 January 2013.
- ↑ The Humanist: An Organ of the Ethical Movement, 1920, p.71
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