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- ↑ "A Short History, Howard University College of Medicine". medicine.howard.edu.
- ↑ Moldow, Gloria (1987). Women doctors in gilded-age Washington : race, gender, and professionalization. University of Illinois Press. pp. 105–115. ISBN 9780252013799.
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