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Shirley House

Date: 1900
Description: The famous "Shirley House" or "White House," stands near the Jackson Road, which was between the Union and Confederate entrenchments during the siege of Vi...
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School House

Date: 07 1965
Description: A rural schoolhouse photographed by a civil rights volunteer.

"A Negro school located outside Gillsburg, Miss. Photographed on our trip to return two MFD...

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Woman Walking Through Freedom House Door

Date: 1965
Description: A woman walks up steps and through a door into a Freedom House, used by civil rights workers.
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Abandond Schoolhouse

Date: 1965
Description: The school used for African-American children in the western half of Clay County until 1960, pictured 5 years after it closed.

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