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- ↑ "People of a New Age" Archived 2010-03-29 at the Wayback Machine by Martin Jezer, WIN magazine, June 1968. Retrieved June 15, 2010. Also reprinted in The Movement for a New America ed. by Mitchell Goodman (Knopf, 1970), p. 92.
- ↑ Pekar, Harvey, et al. Students for a Democratic Society: A Graphic History (Hill and Wang, 2008), p. 171. ISBN 978-0-8090-9539-1
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