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"The first colored senator and representatives - in the 41st and 42nd Congress of the United States," New York, 1872, Currier & Ives, courtesy of Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

Reconstruction of the South, Eastern District of Pennsylvania, 1857, courtesy of Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

Mansion of General Thomas F. Drayton, Hilton Head, South Carolina, May 1862, photograph by Henry P. Moore, courtesy of the Gladstone Collection, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

African American man sitting outside a military camp tent, ca. 1863, courtesy of the Gladstone Collection, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

Memorandum of understanding regarding strike settlement, Charleston, South Carolina, 1969, courtesy of the Catherwood Library Kheel Center at Cornell University.

Charter granted by Emperor Charles V to Lorenzo de Gorrevod for permission to transport slaves, Spain, 18 August 1518, courtesy of the Archivo General de Indias, Sevilla, Spain. The charter opens the trans-Atlantic slave trade by allowing the transportation of four thousand slaves directly from Africa to the Spanish American colonies.

Letter from the Spanish Monarchs Ferdinand and Isabel to Nicolas Ovando, Spain, 20 March 1503, courtesy of the Archivo General de Indias, Sevilla, Spain. The monarchs, on Ovando's recommendation, ban the trans-Atlantic slave trade.

Letter from Spanish monarchs Ferdinand and Isabel to Nicolas Ovando, Spain, 16 September 1501, courtesy of the Archivo General de Indias, Sevilla, Spain.

Cleveland Sellers, ca. 1970s, possibly wearing blue prison garb shortly after his prison release in 1973, Cleveland L. Sellers Papers, courtesy of the Avery Research Center.

Photograph of Cleveland Sellers possibly wearing blue prison garb. Most likely taken in the early 1970s. Inscription on back reads: "To Sis Gwen & Sis Nozisy(?) With Love and Hope, Cleve. May 1973."

Delano Middleton, age 18 years old, college student fatally shot during Orangeburg Massacre, ca. 1968, image courtesy of Cecil Williams.

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