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- 1 2 Knupfer, Anne Meis (2006). The Chicago Black Renaissance And Women's Activism. University of Illinois Press. ISBN 9780252072932 . Retrieved 15 May 2013.
- ↑ Bone, Robert (1986). Richard Wright and the Chicago Renaissance. Callaloo, 28, 446-468.
- ↑ "MTS : Artifacts: Frank Marshall Davis Papers".
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