Picturing Black History

Photographs and stories that changed the world

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enslaved people

View of students and teachers outside what is thought to be a Freedmen's school, Beaufort, South Carolina, late 1860s.

Learning in Secret Places

Susie Baker and the drive for education equality before Brown v. Board of Education

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