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This photograph was taken at Old Salem Museums and Gardens during the summer of 2007. The photograph was taken by Susan Ball, the Five Yesterdays program director at Old Salem. The three costumed interpreters are the three assistants at Five…

Francis King, a local civil rights leader, was involved in the 1963 Civil Rights Movement in Williamston, NC.

The stained glass window in the picture is one of eight in the sanctuary of Brown's Chapel Methodist Church, in Pittsboro, North Carolina.

This is a photo of Tyrannosaurs Rex in Boulder Museum of History in the city of Boulder, Colorado. Taken by Nathan Johnson with his father, Paul Johnson, on a paleontological trip to Dinosaur National Monument in 1996. This dinosaur is dramatically…

This photograph was taken in August 2014 at the end of Hayley's internship with Greensboro Historical Museum in Greensboro, NC. It portrays Hayley working on rehousing some of the museum's dolls during her internship.

This is a piece of the Berlin Wall taken from the West German side in 1989. It serves as an important reminder of the political and physical power that separated families and kept people under an authoritarian government.The Berlin Wall remains one…

This youtube video is a live recording of Nina Simone's performance of Mississippi Goddamm. This recording was from her concert on April 6, 1968, two days after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. Her informal call and response in this…

Photo of The Irish Memorial which was created by sculptor Glenna Goodacre. The Memorial is located at Penn's Landing in Philadelphia, P.A.

The Declaration of Independence was written by Thomas Jefferson in 1776. Jefferson was a member of a five group committee within Continental Congress tasked with creating a declaration and justification of colonial independence.

This item is an excerpt of an oral history transcription with Swade Sanders that took place on April 24, 2014. The entire interview was an hour and 15 minutes long, but the excerpt is only 3 pages, (6 minutes and 58 seconds of the interview).