Production. Launching of the SS Booker T. Washington. Shipyard workers of many racial groups which helped construct the SS Booker T. Washington, first Liberty Ship named for a Negro, wave from the deck of the vessel a short time before it was launched at the California Shipbuilding Corporation's yard on September 29, 1942
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Palmer, Alfred T.
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1942 Sept. 29.
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