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- ↑ "N.W. Ayer & Son's American Newspaper Annual and Directory". 1920.
- ↑ Sundland Tribune
- ↑ FromScrub 2 Twist nieonline.com
- ↑ "The Tampa bulletin".
- ↑ "The Florida Historical Quarterly". July 1980.
- ↑ African Americans in Florida by Maxine D. Jones and Kevin M. McCarthy Pineapple Press (1993)
- ↑ "Potter Elementary School Volunteer Opportunities – VolunteerMatch".
- ↑ https://worldcat.org/identities/np-potter,%20marcellus%20d/
- ↑ "The power of being seen – Florida Humanities". September 14, 2021.
- ↑ Odom, Ersula Knox (November 24, 2014). African Americans of Tampa. Arcadia. ISBN 9781439648575.
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