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African American women basketball players holding their trophy won at the WAC Theater Basketball Championship in Rouen, France

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United States. Army

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Caption on back: "Led championship team; The basketball team representing the 6888th Central Postal Directory, only Negro Wac [Women's Army Corps] unit to serve overseas, won the WAC Theater Basketball Championship of the ETO while stationed in Rouen, France; The last contingent of the 6888th returned to the States on Friday, March 8; with it left to right: Staff Sergeant Doris L. Paige, Ocean Springs, Mississippi, the team's coach; First Lieutenant Mercedes Jordan, New York City, the unit's Special Service Officer; and Technician Fifth Grade Gertrude Cruse, Cincinnati, Ohio, who captained the championship team; In addition to the trophy pictured above which was awarded the team, individual members were presented with self-winding wrist watches., 3/13/46.
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Photographs Gelatin Silver Prints
Created Date:
1946 03 13
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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 Basketball Players
  2. African American Soldiers
  3. African American Women
  4. African Americans
  5. Armed Forces
  6. Awards
  7. France
  8. Military Uniforms
  9. Rouen (France)
  10. United States
  11. Women

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