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Convention of freedmen discussing their political rights, Georgia, 1867, illustration by John Karst, courtesy of Mid-Manhattan Library Picture Collection.

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

"The Freedman's Bureau! An agency to keep the Negro in idleness at the expense of the white man," Pennsylvania, 1866, courtesy of Library of Congress Rare Book and Special Collections Division.

Selling a freedman to pay his fine, Monticello, Florida, 1867, sketch by James E. Taylor,Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, courtesy of Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

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"The great labor question from a Southern point of view," 1865,Harper's Weekly, courtesy of Library of Congress. Words from the man seated on porch read: "My boy - we've toiled and taken care of you long enough - now you've got to work!"

"The Veteran in a new field - from a painting by Homer," 1867,Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, courtesy of Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

"The new South - the triumph of free labor," New York, October 1895, illustration by Udo J. Keppler,Puck, courtesy of Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

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Burke High School students at a sit-in at the S.H. Kress store on King Street, Charleston, South Carolina, April 1, 1960, photograph by Bill Jordan, courtesy of the Post & Courier. From left, Alvin Latten, David Richardson, Verna Jean McNeil, Minerva Brown King and Fred Smalls.

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Laing Normal and Industrial School, Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina, ca. 1908, photograph from W.N. Hartshorn, Era of progress and promise, 1863-1910: the religious, moral, and educational development of the American Negro since his emancipation, courtesy of State Library of North Carolina General Collection.

South Carolina Expansion Program, July 1951-September 1954, Columbia, South Carolina, 1955, from South Carolina State Educational Finance Commission report, "South Carolina's educational revolution: a report of progress in South Carolina," courtesy of South Carolina State Library.

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