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Production. Launching SS Booker T. Washington. The SS Booker T. Washington, first Liberty Ship named for a Negro, slides down the ways at the Wilmington yards of the California Shipbuilding Corporation at its launching on September 29, 1942

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Palmer, Alfred T.

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1942 Sept. 29.
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  1. California
  2. Los Angeles County
  3. Safety Film Negatives
  4. United States
  5. Wilmington

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