«Biographical Sketch of Victorine Spears». Women and Social Movements in the United States,1600-2000. Alexandria, VA: Alexander Street Press. 2021. Consultado el 30 de marzo de 2022.
«Register of the Charlotta A. Bass Papers». Online Archive of California. Southern California Library for Social Studies and Research. Consultado el 5 de septiembre de 2020. «Charlotta Bass, nee Spears, was born on February 14, 1874 in Little Compton, Rhode Island. She attended Brown University, Columbia University and UCLA. At 36 years of age, she moved to Los Angeles and Joined the Eagle later to become the California Eagle.»
«Charlotta Bass». The Boston Globe. 31 de agosto de 1952. p. 43. Consultado el 5 de septiembre de 2020. «Born in Little Compton, R.I., Mrs. Charlotta Bass ... has taken courses at Brown University, Columbia University, and the University of California at Los Angeles».
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«Overlooked No More: Before Kamala Harris, There Was Charlotta Bass». The New York Times. 4 de septiembre de 2020. Consultado el 5 de septiembre de 2020. «Charlotta Amanda Spears is believed to have been born in Sumter, S.C., around 1880 ... Bass enrolled at Pembroke, the women’s college that is now a part of Brown University, and got a job selling subscriptions for a local Black newspaper.»