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- ↑ "Legislator-Profile - Legislative Research Commission". legislature.ky.gov. Retrieved June 9, 2022.
- ↑ "Gerth: White Kentucky politician who opposes DEI tells NAACP: 'My father was a slave'".
- ↑ "Republican lawmaker claims her white father was a slave". independent.
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