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“Zion School for Colored Children, Charleston, South Carolina,” Harper’s Weekly, December 1866, courtesy of the Avery Research Center.

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“This is where the mill children live,” Lancaster, S.C., November 1901, photograph by Lewis Wickes Hine, courtesy of Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

“The first vote,” 1867, wood engraving by Alfred R. Waud, Harper’s Weekly, courtesy of the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

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“The Avery Institute, Charleston, South Carolina,” Harper’s Weekly, 1879, courtesy of the Avery Research Center.

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“Franchise. And not this man?,” wood engraving by Thomas Nash,1865,Harper's Weekly, courtesy of the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

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“Colored rule in a reconstructed (?) state,” 1874, wood engraving by Thomas Nast, Harper’s Weekly, courtesy of the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

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“Bulletin to Regional Directors,” Harold J. Lane to FTA International Vice Presidents, Regional Directors, et. al, November 2, 1945, Isaiah Bennett Papers (AMN 1056), Folder 10, Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture.

Letter from Harold J. Lane detailing strike activities against the American Tobacco Company and calling union members to action.

“Bombardment of Fort Sumter by the batteries of the Confederate states,” illustration fromHarper's Weekly, April 27, 1861, courtesy of the Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.

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[Left to right] Federal Judge J. Waties Waring, Mamie Garvin Fields, Elizabeth Waring, and Arthur J. Clement, ca. 1950s, courtesy of the Post and Courier.

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(Top) Plat # 32-48-3, c. 1807, SC Historical Society collections, (bottom) 1957 survey, College of Charleston

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