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American Red Cross presents twelve-star service pin to colored soldiers

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Announcing the award of the twelve-star service pin to Rev. R. H. Windsor of Rayville, Louisiana, for his 12 sons in the military during World War I. Most likely collected for W. E. B. Du Bois' proposed book "The Black Man in the Wounded World".
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All rights for this document are held by the David Graham Du Bois Trust. Requests to publish, redistribute, or replicate this material should be addressed to Special Collections and University Archives, University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries.Contact host institution for more information.
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Keywords

  1. African American Troops
  2. African Americans
  3. World War, 1914 1918

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