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- ↑ Cohen, Michael Mark (2019). "Charlottesville 2017: The Legacy of Race and Inequity ed. by Louis P. Nelson, Claudrena N. Harold, and: Summer of Hate: Charlottesville, USA by Hawes Spencer (review)". Journal of Southern History. 85 (4): 974–976. doi:10.1353/soh.2019.0257. ISSN 2325-6893 . Retrieved December 3, 2022.
