Elaine Mulzac, an African American woman, daughter of SS Booker T. Washington skipper, talking to two shipyard employees
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@ Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division. The New York Public Library
Palmer, Alfred T
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Caption on back: "Elaine Mulzac, daughter of Captain Hugh Mulzac, Negro skipper of the SS Booker T. Washington, talks to two Negro workmen who helped construct the first liberty ship named for a Negro, [October 1942].
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1942 10
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The New York Public LibraryKeywords
- African Americans
- Armed Forces
- Liberty Ships
- Shipbuilding
- Shipbuilding Industry
- United States
- World War, 1939 1945