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- ↑ "Lynched a negro". Daily Journal. Coffeyville, Kansas. February 10, 1908.
- 1 2 3 "Two thousand citizens hang woman's assailant". Daily Times. Chattanooga, Tennessee. p. 3.
- ↑ "Negro taken from guard and hanged by angry farmers". Journal Times. Racine, Wisconsin. February 10, 1908.
- ↑ "Mob of 2,000 White People Lynches a Black Man in Brookhaven, Mississippi" . Retrieved 21 August 2023.