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Portrait of John Wrighten, circa 1960s, courtesy of the Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture.

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Graduating class of 1915, Charleston, South Carolina, courtesy of the Avery Research Center.

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Graduating class of 1911, Charleston, South Carolina, courtesy of the Avery Research Center.

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Burke High School students at a sit-in at the S.H. Kress store on King Street, Charleston, South Carolina, April 1, 1960, photograph by Bill Jordan, courtesy of the Post and Courier. Eugene Hunt, Avery graduate and Burke High School teacher, encouraged students to join this sit-in aschallenge to segregationist policies and participate in the larger Charleston Movement for Civil Rights. Averyite J. Arthur Brown’s daughter Minerva (fourth from left) was one of the participants.

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Plymouth Congregational Church and Parsonage, ca. 1895, courtesy of the Avery Research Center. In 1867, over one hundred African Americans, mostly former members of the Circular Church, founded the Plymouth Church, the oldest Black Congregational Church in South Carolina. Avery Principal Francis Cardozo served as one of the early pastors, and many Averyites and their families became members of the congregation.

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The Avery Research Center's processing archivist, Georgette Mayo (left), and reference and outreach archivist, Barrye Brown (center) with College of Charleston graduate student assistant Victoria Shaw (right) in the Phyllis Wheatley Reading Room, Charleston, South Carolina, 2015, courtesy of the Avery Research Center.

Charleston Navy Yard Workers' Labor Day Meeting, Charleston, South Carolina, September 8, 1942, Allison Collection of World War II Photographs, courtesy of the MacArthur Museum of Arkansas Military History.

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A sign at the Adams Northeast AME Church calls for prayers for the Emanuel AME Church community, June 2015, Columbia, South Carolina.

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Invitation to a prayer vigil at the Mount Pisgah AME Church the day after the mass shooting at the Emanuel AME Church, June 18, 2015, Sumter, South Carolina.

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Allen Temple AME Church holding a service in honor of the victims of the Emanuel AME Church shooting, June 21, 2015, Greenville, South Carolina.

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