- Collection:
- Stetson Kennedy Papers
- Title:
- Construction of the "Booker T. Washington" Liberty ship, Los Angeles, California, September 1942
- Creator:
- United States. Office of War Information
- Contributor to Resource:
- Southern Labor Archives
- Date of Original:
- 1942-09
- Subject:
- Shipbuilding industry--Employees--California
Work environment
Liberty ships--California--Los Angeles
Boat & ship industry
Liberty ships
Welding
Washington, Booker T., 1856-1915 - People:
- Kennedy, Stetson
- Location:
- United States, California, Los Angeles County, Los Angeles, 34.05223, -118.24368
- Medium:
- photographic prints
- Type:
- StillImage
- Format:
- image/jp2
- 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 Identifier:
- L1979-37_181
- Metadata URL:
- http://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/SKennedy/id/13127
- Rights Holder:
- 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).
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Cite as: L1979-37_181, Stetson Kennedy Papers, L1979-37, Southern Labor Archives. Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University, Atlanta.
- Original Collection:
- Stetson Kennedy papers, Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University Library
- Contributing Institution:
- Georgia State University. Special Collections
- Rights:
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