Photo Credits

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Ty’Sheoma Bethea
Credit: Photography Office of the U. S. House of Representatives

Mary McLeod Bethune
Credit: Mary McLeod Bethune Council House, NHS, National Archives for Black Women’s History

Laura Bragg
Credit: Charleston Museum

Mary Boykin Chesnut
Credit: South Caroliniana Library, University of South Carolina, Columbia

Septima Poinsette Clark
Credit: Courtesy of Avery Research Center for African-American Culture and History

Ann Pamela Cunningham
Credit: South Caroliniana Library, University of South Carolina, Columbia

Marian Wright Edelman
Credit: Children’s  Defense Fund

Mary Gordon Ellis
Credit: Office of the SC Senate; Legislative Printing, Information & Technology Systems

Maj. Gen. Kathryn G. Frost
Credit: Gwen Strickland & family of Maj. Gen. Kathryn Frost

Althea Gibson
Credit: Althea Gibson Foundation

Lucile “Ludy” Godbold
Credit: South Carolina Hall of Fame

Anna Hyatt Huntington
Credit:  Anna Hyatt Huntington Modeling “The Torchbearers” by Herbert Bohnert (1890-1967), oil on canvas, 1958, Collection of Brookgreen Gardens, Pawleys Island, SC.

Leda Bruce Hurst, D.D.S.
Credit: Collection of South Carolina State Museum

Penina Moise
Credit: Anita Moise Rosefield Rosenberg and the College of Charleston

Darla Moore
Credit: Collection of South Carolina State Museum

Louise Smith
Credit: Collection of South Carolina State Museum

Louise Smith
Credit: Collection of South Carolina State Museum

Hon. Ferdinan B.  Nancy Stevenson
Credit: Josephine Oakley and the family of the Hon. Ferdinan B. Nancy Stevenson

Hon. Jean H. Toal
Credit: Office of the Hon. Jean H. Toal

Harriet Tubman
Credit: Mary McLeod Bethune Council House NHS, National Archives for Black Women’s History

Angelica Singleton Van Buren
Credit: The South Carolina Governor’s Mansion, reproduction by C. Gregory Stapko, 1972. The original portrait, by Henry Inman, (1842) hangs in the White House.

Elizabeth Gasque Van Exem
Credit: Office of the Clerk of the U. S. House of Representatives