September 22, 2011
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 9/22/2011
Album, Mother's day Activities, May 8-10, 1942, With Compliments of Colonel Walter S. Fulton, Commanding Oggicer, Fort Benning, Georgia, 11-1/2' x 13." 26pp., each with real photographs affixed to page, VG. The last two pages [5 photographs] show the black soldiers and family. In 1948, President Harry S Truman's Executive Order 9981 ordered the integration of the armed forces shortly after World War II, a major advance in civil rights.
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