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- 1 2 "Spelling her way to success: first black winner of championship is celebrity in Jamaica - Judy-Anne Maxwell wins 1998 National Spelling Bee". Ebony . FindArticles.com. October 1998. Archived from the original on 24 April 2006. Retrieved 20 June 2006.
- ↑ "City's Caribbeans Share W-I-N Apple Under Spell Of Champ From Jamaica". Daily News. New York. 31 May 1998.[ permanent dead link ]
- ↑ Hoffman, Lise (September–October 1998). "Spelling's queen bee - Jody Anne Maxwell of Kingston, Jamaica is winner of Scripps Howard National Spelling Bee". The Saturday Evening Post . FindArticles.com. Archived from the original on 7 June 2008. Retrieved 20 June 2006.
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