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- ↑ "Jacksonville Advocate (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1891-1???". Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA.
- ↑ "The Jacksonville Advocate-Free Press (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1987-1990". Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA.
- ↑ "UF Digital Collections". ufdc.ufl.edu.
- ↑ Ortiz, Paul (October 3, 2006). Emancipation Betrayed: The Hidden History of Black Organizing and White Violence in Florida from Reconstruction to the Bloody Election of 1920. University of California Press. ISBN 9780520250031 – via Google Books.
- ↑ House, United States Congress (April 16, 1966). "Hearings". U.S. Government Printing Office – via Google Books.
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