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Negro Warriors: Receiving the "Croix de Guerre" in France in the First World War

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

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Text
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Photographs Halftone Photomechanical Prints
Created Date:
1948
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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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The New York Public Library

Keywords

  1. African American Soldiers
  2. African Americans
  3. Armed Forces
  4. Awards
  5. France
  6. Military Ceremonies, Honors, And Salutes
  7. United States
  8. World War, 1914 1918

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