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- ↑ Old Fourth Ward Master Plan Archived July 10, 2010, at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ Atlanta to raze most of its public housing complexes, S.A. Reid, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 2007-02-15
- ↑ Keating, Larry (2001). Atlanta: Race, Class and Urban Expansion. Temple University. p. 106. ISBN 1-56639-820-7.