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- Ahn, Abe. “The Lesser-Known History of Slavery in California,” Hyperallergic.cm [Art] April 10, 2019.
- “The Case for Reparations,” Congressional Record Volume 148, Number 8 (Wednesday, February 6, 2002), [House, Pages H184-H199], From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office.
- Chandler, April B. "The Loss in My Bones": Protecting African American Heirs' Property with the Public Use Doctrine, 14 Wm. & Mary Bill Rts. J. 387 (2005), https://scholarship.law.wm.edu/wmborj/ vol14/iss1/11.
- Cook Bell, Karen. “Slavery, Land Ownership, and Black Women’s Community Networks,” AAIHS.org, October 25, 2018.
- Coryell, Janet L. 2000. Negotiating boundaries of southern womanhood: dealing with the powers that be. Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press.
- Douglas, Leah. “African Americans Have Lost Untold Acres of Land Over the Last Century An obscure legal loophole is often to blame,” The Nation [Racism & Discrimination], July 17-24, 2017.
- Gates, Henry Louis. “The Truth Behind '40 Acres and a Mule'”:100 Amazing Facts About the Negro: Find out who came up with the idea, and how it fell through,” The Root, [Internet Archive] January 7, 2013.
- Lewan, Todd And Dolores Barclay. “‘When They Steal Your Land, They Steal Your Future’,” The Los Angeles, Dec 2, 2001.
- Johnson, Hannibal B. Righting the Wrongs of History “The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice: Reparations and the 1921 Tulsa Race Riot.” Oklahoma Humanities [The Magazine of the Oklahoma Humanities Council], Summer 2012, Vol. V, Issue No.2, p.24 – 27.
- Joseph, J.W. “Unwritten History of the Free African American Village of Springfield, Georgia,” NPS [National Park Service] Celebrating National Accomplishments, Archeology Program, Spring 1997, Vol. 2 (1).
- Kendi, Ibram X. “A Mind to Stay: A New Book on Black Landowners,” Black Perspectives, February 18, 2017.
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- Maryland’s Roots. “Anthony Johnson,” Exploring Maryland’s Roots: Library
- Meares, Hadley. Biddy Mason: One of LA’s first black real estate moguls,” Curbed, Los Angeles, March 1, 2017.
- Moore, Antonio. “Who Owns Almost All America’s Land? A USDA report is exposing a massive disparity between white and black land ownership in the United States.,” Inequality, February 15, 2016.
- Newkirk II, Vann R. “The Great Land Robbery: The shameful story of how 1 million black families have been ripped from their farms,” The Atlantic, September 2019.
- Presser, Lizzie. “Their Family Bought Land One Generation After Slavery. The Reels Brothers Spent Eight Years in Jail for Refusing to Leave It,” features.propublica.org, July 15, 2019.
- Reed, Linda. We Specialize in the Wholly Impossible: A Reader in Black Women's History. United States: NYU Press, 1995.
- Sain-Baird. “The Story of Seneca Village,” Central Park NYC.org, January 18, 2018.
- Schweninger, Loren. "Property owning free African-American women in the South, 1800-1870." Journal of Women's History 1, no. 3 (1990): 13-44.
- Taylor, Michael. “Free People of Color in Louisiana Revealing an Unknown Past,”- LSU Libraries
- Thomas W. Mitchell, Destabilizing the Normalization of Rural Black Land Loss: A Critical Role for Legal Empiricism, 2005 Wis. L. Rev. 557 (2005). Available at: https://scholarship.law.tamu.edu/facscholar/784.
- Anthony Johnson – Wikipedia
- Zipporah Potter Atkins – Wikipedia
- Forty acres and a mule – Wikipedia
- Special Field Orders, No. 15 (series 1865) – Wikipedia