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- ↑ Mamba's Daughters. University of South Carolina Press, Retrieved September 6, 2016
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- ↑ Mamba's Daughters - Broadway | Playbill Vault
- ↑ Robertson, Patrick (2011). Robertson's Book of Firsts: Who Did What for the First Time
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- ↑ Carter, Elmer Anderson (1942). Opportunity. National Urban League. p. 91.
