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- ↑ Roanoke Times. Discover History & Heritage: Exploring the People and Places of Southwest Virginia. 2015. Issue 3 originally published with the copyrighted February 25, 2016 edition of The Roanoke Times. "Fleming E. Alexander". Page 51. http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/930723037
- ↑ The Tribune. Roanoke, Va: F.E. Alexander, 1940. http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/39072118
- ↑ Roanoke Tribune
- ↑ The Roanoke Tribune’s 70th Anniversary – Nikki Giovanni Video Archived 2016-05-07 at the Wayback Machine . April 26, 2009
- ↑ "The History of the Roanoke Tribune".