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Progressive Club Historical Marker, photograph by Monica Bowman, Johns Island, South Carolina, March 15, 2016.

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City of Charleston voter registration card for Hercules Lucas, Charleston, South Carolina, 1947, courtesy of the Avery Research Center.

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Lois Simms, Charleston, South Carolina, ca. 1945, courtesy of the Avery Research Center.

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Avery's high school student body, Charleston, South Carolina, 1924, 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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Gymnastics team, Charleston, South Carolina, 1939, courtesy of the Avery Research Center.

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John Wrighten’s first letter to the segregated College of Charleston attempted to gain admission, Charleston, South Carolina, 1943, courtesy of Special Collections at College of Charleston.

"Directing at Highlander Folk School," photograph, Monteagle, Tennessee, 1959, courtesy of the Avery Research Center.

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Thurgood Marshall

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Susan D. Butler, photograph, Charleston, South Carolina, courtesy of the Charleston County Public Library.

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