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List of Illustrations
- Graduation day at Harvard University, 1970
- Bowers Chapel, Mars Bluff, South Carolina
- Edward W. Brown, great-grandfather
- Hopewell Methodist Episcopal Church, Tatum, South Carolina
- Plaintiff class in Gomillion v. Lightfoot
- Thomas Green’s Tatum, South Carolina homestead, ca. 1900
- Ella Green Bowers, grandmother
- Mt. Zion Methodist Episcopal Church, Jamison, South Carolina
- Lillian Riley Brown, grandmother
- James Alvirgus Brown, grandfather
- White Hall, State College, Orangeburg, South Carolina
- Family home in Orangeburg, South Carolina
- Miss El Dorado Johnson’s dressmaking class at St. Martin’s Episcopal Center, New York City
- My mother, a teacher to me and many others
- My brothers, Roy and Wally, with our parents, niece, and me
- Meeting Archbishop Desmond Tutu, 1990
- My roommate Fred Powell at Fisk University, 1963
- Naval ROTC Drum and Bugle Corps, University of South Carolina
- Julian Bond and me at the inaugural AWARE event at the University of South Carolina, 1967
- Senior-year photograph at the University of South Carolina, 1967
- Role models Matthew J. Perry and Earl W. Coblyn
- Me, Loida Lewis, and Judge Robert “Bob” Bell
- Me at Harvard Law School, 1970
- Nick Wheeler-Robinson at Pigotts, England, 2019
- Aerial view of Pigotts, England
- Harvard roommate Nick Wheeler-Robinson, 1968
- Wife, Becky, and sons Oliver and Neville at the Library of Congress, 2007
- Unveiling of my portrait at the University of South Carolina Rice School of Law, October 2025