Southern Cultures would like to thank the Museum of the New South for assistance in collecting images for this essay.
- Mary C. Coleman and Guy B. Phillips, Athletics for High School Girls: The North Carolina Colege far Women Extension Bulletin 3 (November 1925 ), 12.
- The Raleigh News and Observer, 9 February 1997, 1-B.
- North Carolina State Normal and Industrial College Decennial, 1902, University Archives, Walter Clinton Jackson Library, University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
- The Charlotte Observer, 7 April 1907; The Charlotte News, 7 April 1907; The Charlotte Observer, 9 April.
- Marion Stevens Hood to J. I. Foust, 15 March 193 5, Julius Isaac Foust Papers, University Archives, Walter Clinton Jackson Library, University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Hood grad uated in 1910.
- Forty-second Annual Catalog of the Officers and Students of Shaw University, 1916-17 (Edwards & Broughton Printing Co., 1916), 27; Forry-third Annual Catalog ofthe Officers and Students of Shaw University, 1917–18 (Edwards & Broughton Printing Co., 1917), 11.
- The Charlotte Observer, 30 August 1993, A-8.
- Interview with Vada Setzer Hewins, 1 5 March 1993; Interview with Dan Davis, 12 October 1993, Museum of the New South, Charlotte, North Carolina.
- Interview with Elizabeth Stratford Newitt, 7 December 1992, Museum of the New South, Charlotte, North Carolina. Excerpts from this interview, and from several of the others quoted here, can be found in Pamela Grundy, The Most Democratic Sport: Basketball and Culture in the Central Piedmont, 1893–1994 ( Museum of the New South, 1994).
- Interview with Sam Ardrey and Lavinia Ardrey Kell, 10 December 1992, Museum of the New South, Charlotte, North Carolina.
- Hewins interview; Interview with Katharine Farris Moyle, 18 March 1993, Museum of the New South, Charlotte, North Carolina.
- Davis interview.
- Interview with Gladys Thompson Worthy, 6 May 1993, Museum of the New South, Char lotte, North Carolina. See also Susan Cahn, Coming on Strong: Gender and Sex11aliry in Twentieth Century Women’s Sport(The Free Press, 1994); Elva Bishop, “Amateur Athletic Union Women’s Basketball, 1950–1971: The Contributions of Hanes Hosiery, Nashville Business College, and Wayland Baptist College,” (M.A. thesis, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1984), and Kathryn L. Wall, “‘We Always Loved to Play Basketball:’ A Window of Opportunity for Working Class Women’s Sports, Winston-Salem and Elkin, North Carolina, 1934–1949” (M.A. thesis, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1994).
- Interview with Mary Alyce Clemmons, 2 September 1993, Museum of the New South, Charlotte, North Carolina.
- Susan Shackelford, “Hoop Dreams: Women’s Basketball Comes of Age,” Creative Loafing 10 (30 March 19 96):12.
- The Daily Tar Heel, 20 October 1994.
- The Chapel Hill Newspaper, 23 October 1994, B-2.
- Mary Jo Festle, Playing Nice: Politics and Apologies in Women’s Sports (Columbia University Press, 1996).
- Second Ward Herald, January 1936, Alumni House, Second Ward High School National Alumni Foundation, Charlotte, North Carolina.