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2. Gary M. Pomerantz , Where Peachtree Meets Sweet Auburn: A Saga of Race and Family (New York: Penguin Books, 1997)
3. Lila Quintero Weaver , Darkroom: A Memoir in Black and White (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2012), p. 63
4. Frank L. Owsley , John Craig Stewart , and Gordon T. Chappell , Know Alabama: An Elementary History (Northport, AL: Colonial Press, 1965)
5. David H. Ikard and Martell Lee Teasley , Nation of Cowards: Black Optimism in Barack Obama’s Post-Racial America (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2012), p. 28