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Harvey Gantt being interviewed upon entering Clemson College as the first African American student, Clemson, South Carolina, January 28, 1963, courtesy of Special Collections, Clemson University Libraries.

Septima Poinsette Clark, ca. 1970,courtesy of Avery Photograph Collection, Avery Research Center.

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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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.

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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"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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"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 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!"

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 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.

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