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Henry Smith, age 18 years old, college student fatally shot during Orangeburg Massacre, ca. 1968, image courtesy of Cecil Williams.

Delano Middleton, age 18 years old, college student fatally shot during Orangeburg Massacre, ca. 1968, image courtesy of Cecil Williams.

South Carolina National Guard troops marching in the streets of Orangeburg, South Carolina, February 1968, image by Bill Barley, courtesy of South Carolina Political Collections, University of South Carolina.

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South Carolina National Guard Troops march through the city of Orangeburg at night during the Orangeburg Massacre of February 1968.

"Doesn't anyone give a damn about the Murder in Orangeburg!," flyer announcing a meeting of the W.E.B. DuBois Club at the University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, 1968, Raymond K. O'Cain papers, 1967-1969, courtesy of the South Caroliniana Library, University of South Carolina.

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Mimeographed flyer announcing a meeting of the W.E.B. DuBois Club at the University of Chicago.; Raymond K. O'Cain, linguist and professor of English, University of South Carolina; born, 1943, in South Carolina; graduate, 1965, College of Charleston;…

Cleveland Sellers, ca. 1970s, possibly wearing blue prison garb shortly after his prison release in 1973, Cleveland L. Sellers Papers, courtesy of the Avery Research Center.

Photograph of Cleveland Sellers possibly wearing blue prison garb. Most likely taken in the early 1970s. Inscription on back reads: "To Sis Gwen & Sis Nozisy(?) With Love and Hope, Cleve. May 1973."

Fact sheet created by the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee to circulate information about the protests and shooting that occurred February 5-8, 1968 in Orangeburg, South Carolina. Cleveland L. Sellers Papers, courtesy of the Avery Research Center.

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Fact sheet created by the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee relating the events of February 5-8, 1968 at Orangeburg.

Letter from Spanish monarchs Ferdinand and Isabel to Nicolas Ovando, Spain, 16 September 1501, courtesy of the Archivo General de Indias, Sevilla, Spain.

Letter from the Spanish Monarchs Ferdinand and Isabel to Nicolas Ovando, Spain, 20 March 1503, courtesy of the Archivo General de Indias, Sevilla, Spain. The monarchs, on Ovando's recommendation, ban the trans-Atlantic slave trade.

Charter granted by Emperor Charles V to Lorenzo de Gorrevod for permission to transport slaves, Spain, 18 August 1518, courtesy of the Archivo General de Indias, Sevilla, Spain. The charter opens the trans-Atlantic slave trade by allowing the transportation of four thousand slaves directly from Africa to the Spanish American colonies.

Memorandum of understanding regarding strike settlement, Charleston, South Carolina, 1969, courtesy of the Catherwood Library Kheel Center at Cornell University.

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