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- ↑ "Ghettoes: a change in their outlook", Windsor Star, 1969
- ↑ Benjamin Elijah Mays, Born to Rebel: an autobiography, p.279
- ↑ "Ghettoes: a change in their outlook", Windsor Star, 1969
- ↑ "DOT maintaining historic cemetery: State trying to make amends", Albany Herald, July 4, 1985
- ↑ "Protests halt plans to erect Christ statue near highway ramp", News and Courier (Charleston, S.C.), September 25, 1983