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- ↑ Bull, Roger. "Ritz Theatre Celebrates 10 Years Back in Business in LaVilla." Florida Times-Union. September 14, 2009. Accessed 2012-03-03.
- 1 2 Carbone, Marisa. Insiders' Guide to Jacksonville. Guilford, Con..: Globe Pequot Press, 2003, p. 101.
- ↑ Hurst, Rodney L. It Was Never About a Hot Dog and a Coke!: A Personal Account of the 1960 Sit-In Demonstrations in Jacksonville, Florida and Ax Handle Saturday. Livermore, Calif.: WingSpan Press, 2008, p. 16.
- ↑ Cobb, Jr., Charles E. On the Road to Freedom: A Guided Tour of the Civil Rights Trail. Chapel Hill, N.C.: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2008, p. 353.
- ↑ Abravanel, Lesley and Miller, Laura Lea. Frommer's Florida 2010. Hoboken, N.J.: Wiley Publishing, 2009, p. 554.
- ↑ Carrier, Jim. A Traveler's Guide to the Civil Rights Movement. Orlando, Fla.: Harcourt, 2004, p. 191.