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- ↑ "The Law's Too Slow". Opportunity: A Journal of Negro Life . January 1928. p. 19.
- ↑ "The Jim Crow Era: A Solemn Roll Call Of Those Brutally Murdered". PoliticsNY. February 24, 2020. Retrieved April 20, 2021.
- ↑ "2d In Family Lynched by Mob". Courier-Journal. May 20, 1927. Retrieved April 21, 2021.
- ↑ "Macon Negro Lynched For Killing Man," Clarion-Ledger, May 21, 1927, pg 1.
