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Am I Not A Woman And A Sister glass embossing seal by unidentified artist after Josiah Wedgwood, 19th century? Anti-slavery coins and emblems like this, most often of a male figure, were common in Great Britain and the U.S. at the time. Photo credit: John A. Andrew artifact collection from Massachusetts Historical Society
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Dungeon doors from Cape Coast Castle, where captive Africans were housed under lock and key, sometimes for months at a time, awaiting ships that would take them to the New World. Referred to as “The Door of No Return” this is the final door they were led through before boarding ships departing Ghana. Photo credit: African American Museum in Philadelphia
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Cell Door Key from the Birmingham cell where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was held following the 1963 Birmingham campaigns. His Letter from Birmingham Jail was authored from this cell. Photo credit: Birmingham Civil Rights Institute
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Rosa Parks Fingerprint Card In 1955, Rosa Parks was riding on a crowded bus in Montgomery, Alabama. When she refused to give up her seat to a white man, the bus driver had her arrested. At the police station, she was fingerprinted. Her arrest triggered the Montgomery bus boycott and the civil rights movement. Photo credit: Mark Lyons