Marian Anderson and Mary McLeod Bethune at the launching of the SS Booker T Washington - 29 Sept 1942
Marian Anderson celebrated contralto and Mary McLeod Bethune, Director of Negro Affairs in the National Youth Administration at the launching of the SS Booker T. Washington pictured here with a few unidentified workers who helped construct the first Liberty ship named for an African American at the California Shipbuilding Corporation's yards at Wilmington, CA. September 29, 1942, by Alfred T. Palmer, a photographer employed by the U.S. Office of War Information, an agency of the Office of Emergency Management.
- Date
- 1942-09-29
- Photographer / author
- Alfred T. Palmer
- Collection
- FSA/OWI
- Archive
- Wikimedia Commons
- Type
- photograph
- Original size
- 1,898 × 1,530 pixels
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Reason: a US government work (Farm Security Administration / Office of War Information).
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