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In this Aug. 17, 2017 photograph, Jerry W. Keahey Sr., shows off the Speed Graphic 2 1/4x3 1/4 camera he used to document life on the campus of Tougaloo College during his time as a student in the 1960s, at a Jackson, Miss., function. Images taken with the camera include several group photographs of the Tougaloo Nine, the student activists who attempted to integrate the Jackson Municipal Library in 1961. Keahey Sr., recently donated the camera to the Mississippi Department of Archives and History. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)
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