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- ↑ Tindall, George Brown (November 1, 2003). South Carolina Negroes, 1877-1900. Univ of South Carolina Press. p. 61. ISBN 9781570034947 – via Google Books.
- ↑ Burke, William Lewis (November 1, 2017). All for Civil Rights: African American Lawyers in South Carolina, 1868-1968. University of Georgia Press. p. 126. ISBN 9780820350981 – via Google Books.
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