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- 1 2 "Knox concentrates on Freedmen's Bureau - Clarkston News". 25 August 2010.
- ↑ Enthusiastic as Ever, The Colored American (Washington, DC) 8 Mar 1902, page 4, accessed via Newspapers.com
- ↑ John J. Knox's Freedmen's Bureau in Georgia and the South collection. 8 February 2018. OCLC 456084548 – via Open WorldCat.
