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- ↑ The Mississippi Lawyer, Volume 15 (1968).
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 "Supreme Court Justice Fred L. Banks Jr. announces he is stepping down". Mississippi Courts. September 28, 2001.
- 1 2 3 4 5 "Profiles of Former Justices and Judges: Fred L. Banks Jr". Mississippi College Judicial Data Project. December 15, 2000.
- ↑ Turry Flucker, Phoenix Savage, African Americans of Jackson (2008), p. 45.
- ↑ Paul Finkelman, Encyclopedia of African American History, 1896 to the Present (2009), p. 74.
- 1 2 "Fred Banks wins Inns of Court award". Mississippi Business Journal. May 20, 2013.
- ↑ Yasuhiro Katagiri, The Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission: Civil Rights and States' Rights (2007), p. 228.
- ↑ Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States, Jimmy Carter, 1979 (1980), p. 1727.
- ↑ "Clinton and the Federal Courts", Black Enterprise (April 1993), p. 29.