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Describing the Distinguished Service Cross bestowed by the French Government to Harry Friedenwald's butler, Nicholas Rodgers, "one of the only 150 colored men in the whole State of Maryland who enlisted." Attached to verso of Mary White Ovington's letter to the Dayton N.A.A.C.P. (mums312-b165-i173).
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All rights for this document are held by the David Graham Du Bois Trust. Requests to publish, redistribute, or replicate this material should be addressed to Special Collections and University Archives, University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries.Contact host institution for more information.
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Keywords

  1. African American Soldiers
  2. African American Troops
  3. African Americans
  4. Rodgers, Nicholas
  5. World War, 1914 1918

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