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This project was funded by Bernard and Anne Spitzer Travel Fellowship for research projects involving travel abroad and incorporating the study of architecture, landscape architecture, or urbanism.

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For safety purposes, the temporary housing units are located miles away from the coastline, which makes it difficult for elderly and disabled to get to city center.

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The tsunami has not discourage locals from pursuing their interests such as a soccer, a local favorite sport.

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Lack of space has forced the town to combine schools from all ages and districts.

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In 1945, the Cigar Factory was the site of a famous strike--1200 workers, mostly black women, walked out over discrimination and low wages, singing "We Shall Overcome," which would become the anthem of the Civil Right Movement.

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The site of the future International African American Museum, being designed by Pei Cobb Freed & Partners Architects, is along the Cooper River just south of Liberty Square, and at the location of Gadsen's Wharf.

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This is the house of former Charleston blacksmith and legendary artist, Philip Simmons, with his workshop to the right.

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This placard marks the house and workshop of former Charleston blacksmith and legendary artist Philip Simmons.

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After Sunday service on April 17, 2016, a mural of the "Mother Emanuel AME 9" was unveiled. The mural, by Scott Stanton "Panhandle Slim" is a gift from First Baptist to Mother Emanuel. Standing before the mural is Rev. Dr. Brenda Nelson, who was in…

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The Tomb of the Unknown Slave is dedicated to the "nameless, faceless, turfless Africans who met an untimely death in Faubourg Treme." The shrine "honors all slaves buried throughout the United States and those slaves in particular who lie beneath…
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