^Smith, Alyssa (2002). "An Example Article". Journal of Examples. 12 (1): 333.
^"An Open Letter to Decatur's Colored Citizens". Decatur Daily Republican. 3 June 1893. p. 3.
^"An Open Letter to Decatur's Colored Citizens". Decatur Daily Review. 4 June 1893. p. 1.
References
Books
Du Bois, W. E. B., "Black Reconstruction in America" (Ohio, 1962 [1935]).
Katz, William Loren, ed., "NAACP: Thirty Years of Lynching in the United States, 1889-1918" (New York, 1919; reprint, New York, 1969).
Logan, Rayford, "The Betrayal of the Negro" (New York, 1954).
Louise Wood, Amy, "Lynching and Spectacle: Witnessing Racial Violence in America, 1890-1940" (North Carolina, 2009).
Pfeifer, Michael J., "Lynching Beyond Dixie: American Mob Violence Outside the South" (Illinois, 2013).
Waldrep, Christopher, ed., "Lynching in America: A History in Documents" (New York, 2006).
Journals
Cha-Jua, Sundiata Keita. "Join Hands and Hearts with Law and Order": The 1893 Lynching of Samuel J. Bush and the Response of Decatur's African American Community. "The Illinois Historical Journal, Vol. 83, No. 3 (Autumn, 1990): 187-200. Stable URL: JSTOR40192304
Cha-Jua, Sundiata Keita. "A Warlike Demonstration": Legalism, Armed Resistance, and Black Political Mobilization in Decatur, Illinois, 1894-1898." The Journal of Negro History Vol. 83, No. 1 (Winter, 1998): 52-72. Stable URL: JSTOR2668555
Newspapers
Chicago Daily Tribune, 3 June 1893, p. 1, col. 1.
Decatur Daily Republican, 3 June 1893, p. 1, col. 5-6.
Decatur Daily Republican, 4 June 1893, p. 3.
Decatur Daily Review, 3 June 1893, p. 1, col. 3-4.