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Harvard University has agreed to transfer 175-year-old photographs believed to be the earliest images of enslaved people to a South Carolina museum dedicated to African American history. The decision comes as part of a settlement with a woman who claims to be a descendant of those depicted, ending a long legal battle over the ownership of the images.

Residents of Joplin gathered to honor a Tuskegee Airman who graduated from Lincoln High School. He was one of only 19 African American men from Missouri to train at the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama.