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Illustration of Margaret S. Collins by Olivia Foster Rhoades; Olivia is a fifth-year Ph.D. student in the Biological and Biomedical Sciences program at Harvard & is pursuing a concentration in STS at the Harvard Kennedy School. You can find her on Twitter as @OKFoster.

Photograph of Margaret S. Collins, originally published in Jet Magazine, is copyrighted. However, we believe that it’s inclusion in “Margaret Strickland Collins: Civil rights activist and “termite lady” qualifies as fair use because no free-use photograph is available, and it supplements the educational information conveyed in the article by providing a visual reference to a historical figure.

Cover image by GimpWorkshop from Pixabay.