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- ↑ "Senator Irma Hunter Brown - Arkansas State Legislature". www.arkleg.state.ar.us. Retrieved 2021-05-02.
- ↑ "Remembering Early African-American Arkansas Legislators : Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson".[ permanent dead link ]
- ↑ Herbst, John (31 December 1993). "1993 House of Representatives composite photo of the Seventy-Ninth General Assembly of the State of Arkansas". Arkansas General Assembly Composite Images, 1866-2011.
- ↑ https://senate.arkansas.gov/senate-history-education/minorities-in-the-senate/
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