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African American war correspondent aboard a U.S. Coast Guard ship

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United States. Coast Guard

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Caption on back: "Aboard a Coast Guard - manned assault transport crossing the Atlantic, War Correspondent Max Johnson of the Negro daily newspaper, Baltimore Afro-American, moved toward the European war theater; Johnson is attached to Negro infantry unit; A graduate of Howard University, Washington, D. C., he has served on the Afro-American staff for five years, part of the time as assistant city editor.
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Photographs Gelatin Silver Prints
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1939 1945
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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division. The New York Public Library

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Keywords

  1. African American Journalists
  2. African American Soldiers
  3. African Americans
  4. Armed Forces
  5. United States
  6. United States. Army
  7. War Correspondents
  8. World War, 1939 1945

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