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- ↑ Glaise, Dr Joyce (April 30, 2016). From Danville to Destiny: I Got Nerve: The Political Legacy of a Danville Native. Trafford Publishing. ISBN 9781490772707 – via Google Books.
- ↑ Rights, United States Congress Senate Committee on the Judiciary Subcommittee on Constitutional (July 2, 1964). "Nominations of Mrs. Frankie Muse Freeman and Mr. Eugene C. Patterson: Hearing, Eighty-eighth Congress, Second Session, on the Nomination of Mrs. Frankie Muse Freeman, of St. Louis, Mo., and Mr. Eugene C. Patterson, of Atlanta, Ga., to be Members of the Commission on Civil Rights. July 28, 1964". U.S. Government Printing Office – via Google Books.
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- ↑ Bailey, Frankie Y.; Green, Alice P. (April 22, 2011). Wicked Danville: Liquor and Lawlessness in a Southside Virginia City. Arcadia Publishing. ISBN 9781625841223 – via Google Books.
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