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David Cardozo gravestone from Coming Street Cemetery. Photograph by Leah Worthington

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Gravesite of Jacob De La Motta (1789-1845), "Surgeon, War of 1812" and "President of Shearith Israel, 1840." Located in Coming Street Cemetery. Photograph by Leah Worthington.

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Gravesite of Gustavus Poznanski Jr. (1842-1862), "Killed in Action, Civil War." Located in Coming Street Cemetery. Photograph by Leah Worthington.

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(Left) NAACP lawyer Thurgood Marshall and plaintiff Daniel Murray of Pearson v. Murray, circa 1936, courtesy of Maryland State Archives. (Right) Plaintiff George McLaurin of McLaurin v. Oklahoma attending class, circa 1950, courtesy of Library of Congress. Murray’s and McLaurin’s Supreme Court cases represent the NAACP’s legal strategy shift from their 1930s fight to have the separate but equal doctrine implemented to their 1950s fight to make segregation illegal.

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Examples of gravestones commemorating military service of Jewish soldiers, in the KKBE Coming Street Cemetery, Charleston, 2022, photographed by LCDL staff.

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Local NAACP activists Charles Mason, John Chisolm, Etta Clark, and J. Arthur Brown, Charleston, South Carolina, 1955, courtesy of Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture.

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Rice culture on the Ogeechee, near Savannah, Georgia. Sketched by A.R. Waud, ca. 1867. Courtesy of Library of Congress

Program of the Kalushiner Society of Charleston, South Carolina Sixth Annual Banquet, 1928, courtesy of Special Collections at the College of Charleston.

Portrait of Eleanor H. Cohen Seixas, sketch by her brother, Lawrence Cohen, alongside an excerpt from her diary expressing her "regret" of the abolishment of slavery, courtesy of Special Collection at the College of Charleston.

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