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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.

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

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“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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“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.

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

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Interview with Septima Pointsette Clark by Jacquelyn Hall, June 25, 1967 G-0016, in the Southern Oral History Program Collection #4007, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Clip from original interview, minutes 1:49:16-1:51:19.

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The Freedman's village, Hampton, Virginia, September 1865,Harper's Weekly, courtesy of Library of Congress.

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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