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Burke Industrial School, Charleston, South Carolina, ca. 1911, courtesy of Dart Family Papers,Avery Research Center.

Burke High School, photograph by Rebekah Dobrasko, 244 President Street, Charleston South Carolina, 2005.

Burke High School, Charleston, South Carolina, 2003, courtesy of Dart Family Papers,Avery Research Center.

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 & Courier. From left, Alvin Latten, David Richardson, Verna Jean McNeil, Minerva Brown King and Fred Smalls.

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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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Burke High School Marker, photograph by Caroline Darnell, Charleston, South Carolina, November 2015.

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Burke High School gate, sketch by Philip Simmons, Charleston, South Carolina, courtesy of the Avery Research Center.

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Burke High School building before merger with Avery High School, ca. 1940s, courtesy of the Avery Research Center.

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Bunce Island, Sierra Leone, ca. early 2000s (top), 1726 (bottom), images courtesy of Comet Multimedia and The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition. The Bunce Island slave fortress was a major supplier of enslaved West Africans to rice plantations in the British colonies of South Carolina and Georgia. Slave trader Henry Laurens was Bunce Island's business agent in Charleston.

Buist Elementary School, photograph by Katherine Saunders, 103 Calhoun Street, Charleston County, South Carolina. Courtesy of Historic Charleston Foundation.

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