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An enthusiastic audience of 20,000 people who bade farewell to over 1300 jolly Colored draftees at Memphis, Tennessee, Sept. 1, 1918

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@ Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division. The New York Public Library

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Negro pictorial review; a visual narrative of the Negro's glorious part in the world's greatest war. Of the Great War, by M. V. Lynk.

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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division. The New York Public Library

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The New York Public Library

Keywords

  1. African Americans
  2. Crowds
  3. Memphis (Tenn.)
  4. World War, 1914 1918

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