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(Left Image) Sketch of Billy Simon from a News and Courier article, 1903. Illustration taken from This Happy Land: The Jews of Colonial and Antebellum Charleston. (Right Image) Rule XXIII Khal Kadosh Beth Elohim 1820 Constitution.

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(Left Image) The Zionist Organization of America Charleston District meeting minutes book, circa 1917, courtesy of Special Collections at College of Charleston Libraries. (Right Image) A page of the Zionist Organization of America meeting minutes noting a meeting held at the Daughters of Israel Hall, Charleston, 1920, courtesy of Special Collections at College of Charleston Libraries.

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(Left to right) Gravestone of Benjamin Seabrook, photograph by Kimberly Pyszka, Stono Preserve, December 2013; gravestone of Robert Seabrook, photograph by Erik Johanson, Stono Preserve, October, 2009; gravestone of Sarah Seabrook, photograph by Stono Preserve, December 2013; gravestone of Amerinthia Elliot Lowndes, photograph by Rachel Rachel, Stono Preserve, March, 2013.

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(Left to right) Portrait of African American woman holding a white infant, Solomon Nunes Carvalho, New York City, circa 1870, courtesy of the Library of Congress; portrait of African American woman holding a white infant, circa 1855, courtesy of the Library of Congress; miniature portrait from Sexually Ambiguous, Susan Harbage Page, Charleston, South Carolina, 2009, courtesy of the Gibbes Museum of Art; portrait of an African American woman seated holding an African American infant, photograph by A. D. Jaynes, Corning, New York, circa 1860.

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(Left) Detail of 1799 Plat, courtesy of McCrady Plat Collection, Charleston County RMS. (Right) Detail of plat of Stono River land, 1807, courtesy of South Carolina Historical Society.

(Left) Example of recovered artifacts including, nails, window glass, mortar, brick, and tobacco pipe stems. (Upper center) Excavating around the church foundations. (Bottom center) 1720s tobacco pipe recovered from under the church’s main entrance steps. (Upper right) Staffordshire slipware sherds. (Below right) Field school students displaying artifacts.

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(Left) Modest Keenan, Rosenwald Schools of South Carolina oral history collection, Department of Oral History, courtesy of University Libraries, University of South Carolina. (Right) Mildred McDuffie, Rosenwald Schools of South Carolina oral history collection, Department of Oral History, courtesy of University Libraries, University of South Carolina

(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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(Left) Parker School, Kershaw County, South Carolina, 1930s, courtesy of South Carolina Department of Archives and History. State Historic Properties Office. (Right) Four Mile School, Horry County, South Carolina, 1930s, courtesy of South Carolina Department of Archives and History. State Historic Properties Office.

(Left) Portrait of Aaron Solomon Raisin, photograph by A. Smith, New York, New York, 1902, courtesy of Special Collections at College of Charleston Libraries. (Right) Portrait of Jacob S. Raisin, 1906, photograph by Sol. Young Studios, courtesy of Special Collections at College of Charleston Libraries.

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