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- ↑ "Harold Paulk (Hal) Henderson, Sr. oral history collection - The Civil Rights History Project: Survey of Collections and Repositories (The American Folklife Center, Library of Congress)". www.loc.gov.
- ↑ "Harold Paulk (Hal) Henderson, Sr. Oral History Collection". russelldoc.galib.uga.edu.
- ↑ Cook, James (2001). "Reviewed work: Ernest Vandiver, Governor of Georgia, Harold Paulk Henderson". The Georgia Historical Quarterly. 85 (1): 161–163. JSTOR 40584396.
- ↑ Henderson, Harold Paulk (June 1, 2008). Ernest Vandiver, Governor of Georgia. University of Georgia Press. ISBN 9780820330600 – via Google Books.
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