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- ↑ "KCK Negro lawyer William H. Towers dies Had practiced law for 40 years". The Iola Register. July 13, 1959. p. 3 – via newspapers.com.
- 1 2 "Kansas Legislators: Past and Present • State Library of Kans". kslib.info.
- ↑ Smith (Jr.), John Clay (March 16, 1999). Emancipation: The Making of the Black Lawyer, 1844-1944. University of Pennsylvania Press. ISBN 0-8122-1685-7 – via Google Books.
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