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African American women, members of the 32nd and 33rd Company's Women's Army Auxiliary Corps basketball team, playing a game of basketball at Fort Huachuca

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Caption on back: "32nd and 33rd Company's WAAC Basketball Teams at Play--Reading from left to right: Reba Caldwell, Leader, Pittsburgh, Kansas; Lillian Duncan, Auxiliary First Class, Little Rock, Ark.; Georgia Goens, Technician Fifth Grade, New York, N.Y.; Gwendolyn Seymour, Auxiliary First Class, Roanoke, Va.; Dorothy Thompson, Auxiliary First Class, Nashville, Tenn.; Mildred Gilmore, Technician Fifth Grade, Chicago, Illinois.
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Photographs Gelatin Silver Prints
Contributors:
United States. Army. Signal Corps
Created Date:
1939 1945
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Military

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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division. The New York Public Library

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Keywords

  1. African American Baseball Players
  2. African American Soldiers
  3. African American Women
  4. African Americans
  5. Armed Forces
  6. Fort Huachuca (Ariz.)
  7. Military Life
  8. Military Sports
  9. United States
  10. United States. Army. Women's Army Auxiliary Corps
  11. United States. Army. Women's Army Corps
  12. Women
  13. Women Basketball Players
  14. World War, 1939 1945

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