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- ↑ Harlon Dalton, Professor Emeritus of Law Yale Law School
- ↑ Larsen, David, (Review),Racial Healing Archived 2011-09-28 at the Wayback Machine October 1995, New York: Doubleday, ISBN 0-385-47516-0
Rereading America(2007) where excerpts from Racial Healing and a description of Dalton were featured.
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