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Cortez W. Peters, world champion typist, aids Army and Navy typewriter drive

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Photograph of Cortez W. Peters, Sr. (1906-1964), world champion portable typist, shown with ten late-model standard size Royal typewriters that he turned over to the United States Government to aid the drive for 600,000 machines for the Army and Navy in 1942. The typewriters came from three business schools operated by Mr. Peters in Washington, D.C., Baltimore, Maryland, and Chicago, Illinois. He established these schools after he set a record for typing more than 99 words a minute in competition while wearing mittens, and operated them until the mid-1970s. The first African American owner of this type of business, he along with his son, Cortez W. Peters, Jr. (1926-1993), also a world typing champion, developed a special competition keyboarding method and trained about 40,000 people. (United States Office of War Information photograph D-7018.)
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