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Archives
The Molly Malone Cook papers at the Sophia Smith Collection of Women’s History at Smith College, Sophia Smith Collection, SSC-MS-00595, Smith College Special Collections, Northampton, Massachusetts. https://findingaids.smith.edu/repositories/2/resources/1147.
The Lorraine Hansberry Papers at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, https://archives.nypl.org/scm/20931.
Images
All images, unless otherwise specified, from the Molly Malone Cook Papers, Sophia Smith Collection, SSC-MS-00595, Smith College Special Collections, Northampton, Massachusetts. https://findingaids.smith.edu/repositories/2/resources/1147
All materials from the Molly Malone Cook papers reproduced with the permission of Mary Oliver.
Like/Hate list scan from Lorraine Hansberry Literary Trust, https://www.lhlt.org/schomburg-center-lorraine-hansberry-papers.
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