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Construction of the "Booker T. Washington" Liberty ship, Los Angeles, California, September 1942

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Text on reverse: "D-6126 Ernest Enloe Cotton, a former Tuskegee student now employed by the California Shipbuilding Corporation, is shown with a lead man examining the weld head put on a section of the double bottom of a Liberty ship. The Booker T. Washington, first Negro ship named for a Negro, was constructed in this yard. Mr. Washington founded Tuskegee Institute in Alabama." Stetson Kennedy (1916-2011), writer and civil rights activist, collected these photographs during the course of his career fighting for equality throughout the Southern United States.
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Southern Labor Archives
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Georgia State University

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Digital Library of Georgia

Keywords

  1. Boat & Ship Industry
  2. California
  3. Employees
  4. Liberty Ships
  5. Los Angeles
  6. Shipbuilding Industry
  7. Washington, Booker T., 1856 1915
  8. Welding
  9. Work Environment

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