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- ↑ 'Kenneth Hyman interview', Bizarre Magazine accessed 28 May 2012
- ↑ Elizabeth Mehren, 'A 'Black Director' or Simply an Artist? : Gordon Parks Fueled the Dreams of Young Black Filmmakers With 'The Learning Tree' in 1969; He's Not Sure Those Dreams Have Come True', LA Times, November 26, 1990 accessed 28 May 2012
