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- ↑ "The Law's Too Slow". Opportunity: A Journal of Negro Life . January 1928. p. 19.
- ↑ "Texas Negro Lynched for Jones Crime". Clarion-Ledger . May 27, 1927. p. 1. Retrieved April 20, 2021.
