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- ↑ Cashin, Sheryll (July 31, 2008). The Agitator's Daughter: A Memoir of Four Generations of One Extraordinary African-American Family. PublicAffairs. ISBN 9780786721726 – via Google Books.
- ↑ Biddle, Daniel R. (2010). Tasting freedom : Octavius Catto and the battle for equality in Civil War America. Murray Dubin. Philadelphia: Temple University Press. p. 479. ISBN 978-1-59213-467-0. OCLC 650495418.
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- ↑ Smith, Charles Spencer (June 15, 1895). "Glimpses of Africa, West and Southwest Coast: Containing the Author's Impressions and Observations During a Voyage of Six Thousand Miles from Sierra Leone to St. Paul de Loanda and Return, Including the Rio Del Ray and Cameroons Rivers, and the Congo River, from Its Mouth to Matadi". A.M.E. Sunday School Union – via Google Books.
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- ↑ Volney Riser, R. (24 May 2010). Defying Disfranchisement: Black Voting Rights Activism in the Jim Crow South, 1890-1908. ISBN 9780807137413.
- ↑ Cashin, Herschel V.; Alexander, Charles; Anderson, William T.; Brown, Arthur McKimmon; Bivins, Horace Wayman (June 15, 1899). "Under Fire: With the Tenth U.S. Cavalry. Being a Brief, Comprehensive Review of the Negro's Participation in the Wars of the United States. Especially Showing the Valor and Heroism of the Negro Soldiers of the Ninth and Tenth Cavalries, and the Twenty-fourth and Twenty-fifth Infantries of the Regular Army; as Demonstrated in the Decisive Campaign Around Santiago de Cuba, 1898 ... Thrilling Episodes Interestingly Narrated by Officers and Men. Famous Indian Campaigns and Their Results. A Purely Military History of the Negro. With Introduction by Major-General Joseph Wheeler ... By Herschel V. Cashin ... Charles Alexander ... William T. Anderson ... Arthur M. Brown ... Horace W. Bivins ... Illustrated with Over One Hundred Fine Engravings from Original Photographs ..." F.T. Neely – via Google Books.
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