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Large Building with Large Group of African Americans, Sam A. Cooley, Beaufort, South Carolina, 1860, courtesy of College of Charleston Libraries.

1860 AfAm school.jpg

Large Canoe and Village Scene, possibly Liberia, mid-19th century, courtesy of University of Virginia Library, Special Collections.

West African boat.jpg

Large group of slaves(?) standing in front of buildings on Smith's Plantation, Beaufort, South Carolina

Plantation Slaves_O'Sullivan_1862.jpg

Las Siete Partidas (the Seven-Part Code), 1550 publication cover, orginally compiled 1265.

Las Voces Cover

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Last known photo of Avery faculty, Charleston, South Carolina, ca. 1947, courtesy of the Avery Research Center. Back row (from left to right): Carutha Williams, Isabell Coaxum, Alphonso Hoursey, John Davidson, Hattie Green, and Principal John F. Potts. Second row (left to right): Geneva P. Singleton, Ann Duncan, Frances C. Thomas, D. Jack Moses, John Howie, Michael Graces, and Luther Brigen. Front row (left to right): Margaret R. Poinsette, Lois Moses, Johnnie Johnson, Cynthia McCottry, Esther Manigault, Lucille Williams, and Charlotte Tracy.

Avery Faculty 1940s CROPPED_Avery_NoP.jpg

Last white teachers at Avery, Charleston, South Carolina, ca. 1914, courtesy of the Avery Research Center.

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Last white teachers at Avery, Charleston, South Carolina, ca. 1914, courtesy of the Avery Research Center. Increasingly strict segregation laws and customs prohibited different races from living together in the same household, which forced Avery to release the last white teachers from its faculty residence in 1915.

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Latino construction workers watching the Martin Luther King Jr. Parade, photograph by Kerry Taylor, Charleston, South Carolina, January 16, 2017.

Latino construction workers working on a building during Martin Luther King Jr. Parade, photograph by Kerry Taylor, Charleston, South Carolina, January 16, 2017.

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