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Cecil J. Williams is a native of Orangeburg, South Carolina. He began taking documentary photographs of his community at the age of nine. By 15, he was working professionally as a freelancer for Jet...
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Benjamin Mays (1894-1984) was a minister, educator, scholar and social activist. He was known as the "Father of the Civil Rights Movement."
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James Burrows Edwards was born in Hawthorne, Florida, and was an officer in the U.S. Maritime Service during World War II. Edwards received a bachelor's degree in 1950 at the College of Charleston. He...
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Part 6 of the Modjeska Simkins story. An African American girl born to a half-white, half-black brick mason, Modjeska came from relative wealth and married into wealth, but dedicated her life to...
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Part 1 of the Modjeska Simkins story. An African American girl born to a half-white, half-black brick mason, Modjeska came from relative wealth and married into wealth, but dedicated her life to...
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Part 3 of the Modjeska Simkins story. An African American girl born to a half-white, half-black brick mason, Modjeska came from relative wealth and married into wealth, but dedicated her life to...
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Part 2 of the Modjeska Simkins story. An African American girl born to a half-white, half-black brick mason, Modjeska came from relative wealth and married into wealth, but dedicated her life to...
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Part 7 of the Modjeska Simkins story. An African American girl born to a half-white, half-black brick mason, Modjeska came from relative wealth and married into wealth, but dedicated her life to...
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Part 5 of the Modjeska Simkins story. An African American girl born to a half-white, half-black brick mason, Modjeska came from relative wealth and married into wealth, but dedicated her life to...
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Part 4 of the Modjeska Simkins story. An African American girl born to a half-white, half-black brick mason, Modjeska came from relative wealth and married into wealth, but dedicated her life to...