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| Creator: | United States. Office of War Information |
| Creator: | Southern Labor Archives |
| Title: | Construction of the "Booker T. Washington" Liberty ship, Los Angeles, California, September 1942 |
| Date: | 1942 Sept. |
| Description: | Text on reverse: "D-6126 Ernest Enloe Cotton, a former Tuskegee student now employed by the California Shipbuilding Corporation, is shown with a lead man examining the weld head put on a section of the double bottom of a Liberty ship. The Booker T. Washington, first Negro ship named for a Negro, was constructed in this yard. Mr. Washington founded Tuskegee Institute in Alabama." Stetson Kennedy (1916-2011), writer and civil rights activist, collected these photographs during the course of his career fighting for equality throughout the Southern United States. Local identification number: L1979-37_181 |
| Types: | photographic prints | StillImage |
| Subjects: | Kennedy, Stetson | Shipbuilding industry--Employees--California | Work environment | Liberty ships--California--Los Angeles | Boat & ship industry | Liberty ships | Welding | Washington, Booker T., 1856-1915 | United States, California, Los Angeles County, Los Angeles, 34.0522342, -118.2436849 |
| Collection: | Stetson Kennedy Papers |
| Institution: | Georgia State University Special Collections |
| Contributors: | Georgia State University. Special Collections |
| Original Material: | Stetson Kennedy papers, Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University Library |
| Rights and Usage: | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/ Cite as: L1979-37_181, Stetson Kennedy Papers, L1979-37, Southern Labor Archives. Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University, Atlanta. This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. In addition, no permission is required from the rights-holder(s) for educational uses. For other uses, you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s). |
| Persistent Link to Item: | http://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/SKennedy/id/13127 |
