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African Americans carrying rice, South Carolina, ca. 1895, Robert N. Dennis collection of stereoscopic views, courtesy of Strohmeyer & Wyman.

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African American workers on a field hoeing rice, South Carolina, ca. 1904, courtesy of Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

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African American workers weeding on a Cape Fear River rice plantation, North Carolina, 1866, wood engraving in Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, courtesy of Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

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Excerpt of a 1869 U.S. Government map showing Mitchelville, South Carolina, a freedmen's town that was part of the Port Royal Experiment, located in what is now Hilton Head, South Carolina.

Skilled freedmen working at the Union army’s carpenter shops in Beaufort, South Carolina, ca. 1860s, courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration.

Former slaves on a plantation in Beaufort, South Carolina, 1862, courtesy of the Library of Congress.

African Americans in front of cabin in South Carolina, ca. 1860-1900, courtesy of Black America.

Editorial cartoon criticizing the usage of literacy tests for African Americans as a qualification to vote, Harper's Weekly, 1879, courtesy of the Library of Congress.

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"Colored National Labor Union convention in Washington, D.C.," February 6, 1869, Harper's Weekly, courtesy of the Library of Congress.

"Visit of the Ku-Klux," drawn by Frank Bellew, Harper's Weekly, 1872, courtesy of the Library of Congress.

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