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A small feature from the "Army and Navy Journal" clipped by Henry Romeike, Inc., on an official decision deeming a colored officer "unqualified" as "Negroes are deficient in moral fiber, rendering them unfit as officers and leaders of men" and outlining the protests made thereto to the War Dept. See also mums312-b165-i416, i424.
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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 Americans
  3. Civil Rights
  4. Discrimination
  5. Discrimination In The Military
  6. World War, 1914 1918

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