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- 1 2 "Ruth Feldstein", speaker profile at the Organization of American Historians
- ↑ University of Pensilvania archives (retrieved December 11, 2017)
- ↑ "Ruth Feldstein and Asa Nixon Marry", The New York Times , August 20, 1990
- ↑ Brown University, The Two Hundred and Twenty-First Commencement, Providence, Rhode Island, May 29, 1989
- ↑ "Publisher's review of Motherhood in Black and White"
- ↑ Ruth Feldstein, “’I Don’t Trust You Anymore’; Nina Simone, Culture, and Black Activism in the 1960s,” Journal of American History 87, no. 4 (2005): 1365
- ↑ "his Author Is Redefining Feminism in the Civil Rights Movement", by Lauren Byrnes, April 2, 2014
- ↑ "Harnessing Celebrity to Civil Rights Cause - ‘How It Feels to Be Free’ Salutes Black Female Entertainers", The New York Times , January 15, 2014
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