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Reverend John L. Dart lays the cornerstone of the Charleston Industrial Institute (Dart standing in forefront on right), ca. 1890s, courtesy of the Avery Research Center.

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Plymouth Congregational Church, ca. late nineteenth century, courtesy of the Avery Research Center.

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Lucille Turner McCottry, Avery Normal Institute graduate, Class of 1907, ca. 1907, courtesy of the Avery Research Center. McCottry is wearing a graduation dress she made with the help of her older sister. Prior to 1919, a citywide ordinance prevented Black teachers from working in Charleston's Black public schools. Avery graduates who pursued teaching before that time, such as McCottry and Septima Poinsette, had two options: apply for a position at private schools like Avery or find work teaching outside of the city.

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Lucille Turner McCottry's South Carolina General Elementary State Certificate for Teachers, 1907, courtesy of the Avery Research Center.

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Letter from Black leaders in Charleston to South Carolina politicians requesting that they overturn the city ordinance preventing Black teachers from teaching in Charleston’s Black public schools, Charleston, South Carolina, 1919, courtesy of the Avery Research Center.

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“Dr. W. E. B. Du Bois & Sight Seeing Party,” Charleston, South Carolina, 1917, courtesy of the Avery Research Center. W. E. B. Du Bois (center), Avery Principal Benjamin Cox (top row, fourth from left). Du Bois, a founding member and leader of the NAACP, visited Charleston in March 1917 to rally community support for the city's newly formed NAACP branch. Teddy Harleston and other founding members of the Charleston branch met with Du Bois during his visit.

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Dart Hall, Charleston, South Carolina, 1929, courtesy of the Avery Research Center. In the 1920s, the original school building for the Charleston Industrial Institute became the Dart Hall Branch of the Charleston Free Library. This branch served as the first public library for Blacks in Charleston.

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Diploma for Corinne Adelaide Scanlan from the Avery Normal Institute, 1917, courtesy of the Avery Research Center.

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L. Howard Bennett, Avery principal 1942-1944, courtesy of the Avery Research Center.

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Samuel T. Washington, Avery principal 1944-1945, courtesy of the Avery Research Center.

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