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Runaway advertisement for Susan, The Daily Picayune, March 1, 1845.

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Runaway advertisement for Tenah, Charleston Courier, Mary 8, 1822.

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Runaway advertisement for Tom, an enslaved man on the Fickling plantation,, City Gazette and Daily Advertiser, July 23, 1794.

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Runaway advertisement for Viletta, Charleston Mercury, August 21, 1829.

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Runaway slave advertisement placed by slave master in South Carolina newspaper, ca. late eighteenth to early nineteenth century, courtesy of the University of Southern Mississippi. Advertisement notes that the runaway will most likely go to Charleston, South Carolina, where he has an aunt and uncle.

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Runaway slave advertisement,City Gazette and Daily Advertiser,Charleston, South Carolina, January 8, 1808.

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Runaway slave advertisement,The State Gazette of South Carolina,Charleston, South Carolina, August, 7,1786.

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Ruth Carter and her siblings integrated their local schools in the Drew School District in Drew, Mississippi in 1965.

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Ruth Carter, Drew School District, Drew, Mississippi, 1965.

S. H. Kress store on King Street, site of student sit-in, Charleston, South Carolina, ca. 1960, courtesy of the Avery Research Center. Eugene Hunt, Avery graduate and Burke High School teacher, encouraged students to protest S. H. Kress’s segregation policies as part of the Charleston Movement.

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