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- ↑ Elizabeth Montgomery, Rev. Joseph Roberts, 79: King successor helped church grow, reach out, ajc.com, USA, February 18, 2015
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- ↑ Paul Finkelman, Encyclopedia of African American History, 1896 to the Present: From the Age of Segregation to the Twenty-first Century Five-volume Set, Oxford University Press, UK, 2009, p. 119
- ↑ Elizabeth Montgomery, Rev. Joseph Roberts, 79: King successor helped church grow, reach out, ajc.com, USA, February 18, 2015
- ↑ Kevin Sack, A New Place to Nourish One Dreamer's Legacy, nytimes.com, USA, March 8, 1999
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- ↑ The HistoryMakers, Reverend Dr. Joseph L. Roberts, thehistorymakers.org, USA, September 14, 2007
- ↑ Elizabeth Montgomery, Rev. Joseph Roberts, 79: King successor helped church grow, reach out, ajc.com, USA, February 18, 2015
- ↑ Kalamazoo College, Joseph Lawrence Roberts, Jr. Honorary Degree Citation, kzoo.edu, USA, June 1992