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- ↑ "The Law's Too Slow". Opportunity: A Journal of Negro Life . January 1928. p. 19. Retrieved May 23, 2021.
- ↑ Harrison, Conor M. (2014). Power For All? Electricity and Uneven Development in North Carolina (PDF) (Thesis). University of North Carolina. p. 120.
- ↑ Steelman, John R. (1928). A Study of Mob Action in the South (PhD). University of North Carolina. p. 178.
