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- ↑ "History". Saint Paul Methodist Episcopal Church. Retrieved 21 September 2019.
- ↑ Gilbert, Levi, ed. (November 18, 1914). "Annual Meeting Freedman's Aid Society". Western Christian Advocate. The Methodist Book Concern. 80 (46): 1302.
- ↑ "Negro Education: A Study of the Private and Higher Schools for Colored People in the United States". 1917.
- 1 2 Stowell 1922 , p. 132.
- ↑ "Piano Recital Monday Missionary Church". Daily Press . Newport News, Virginia. June 22, 1924. p. 20.
- ↑ Murphy, Larry G.; Melton, J. Gordon; Ward, Gary L., eds. (2013-11-20). "Haven Institute". Encyclopedia of African American Religions. Routledge. p. 331. ISBN 978-1-135-51338-2.
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