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Check written from John McCray to John Wrighten for Afro Charleston License, John H. McCray, 1955, courtesy of University of South Carolina Caroliniana Library.

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Charles Foster, the first Black cadet to desegregate the Citadel Military College, pictured on Matriculation Day, Charleston, South Carolina, 1966, courtesy of The Citadel Archives & Museum.

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Charles Foster, the first Black cadet to desegregate the Citadel Military College, pictured marching during his freshman year, Charleston, South Carolina, 1966, courtesy of The Citadel Archives & Museum.

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Charles Foster, the first Black cadet to desegregate the Citadel Military College, pictured walking with his mother, Blanche Foster, grandmother, Naomi DeLesline, and family friend, Liz McCray, on campus, The Sphinx, Charleston, South Carolina, 1967, courtesy of The Citadel Archives & Museum.

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In 1960, Irwin Holmes became the first Black student to graduate from North Carolina State University, Durham, North Carolina, circa 1950, courtesy of Durham County Library.

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Gwendolyn Harrison, the first Black student to desegregate the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, The Golden Bull, Charlotte, North Carolina, 1951, courtesy of Johnson C. Smith University.

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"The Three Pioneers" sculpture, honoring Ralph A. Long, Jr., Lawrence Williams, and Ford C. Greene, the first Black students to desegregate Georgia Institute of Technology, Martin Dawe, Atlanta, Georgia, 2019, courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.

Ford C. Greene, Lawrence Williams, and Ralph A. Long, Jr., the first Black students to desegregate Georgia Institute of Technology, Bill Young, Atlanta, Georgia, 1961, courtesy of Atlanta Journal-Constitution Photographic Archive, Georgia State University Special Collections and Archives.

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Charlayne Hunter and Hamilton Holmes, the first Black students to desegregate the University of Georgia, arrive for their first day of classes, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Athens, Georgia, 1961, courtesy of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution Photographic Archive, Georgia State University Special Collections and Archives.

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Charlayne Hunter and Hamilton Holmes, the first Black students to desegregate the University of Georgia, interviewed by the press after trying to register for classes, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Athens, Georgia, 1961, courtesy of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution Photographic Archive, Georgia State University Special Collections and Archives.

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