- Collection:
- African American Odyssey
- Title:
- Above and beyond the call of duty
- Date of Original:
- 1942-05-27
- Subject:
- United States. Navy--African Americans
African American sailors
African American men
Pearl Harbor (Hawaii), Attack on, 1941
Navy Cross (Medal)
West Virginia (Armored cruiser)
World War, 1939-1945--Participation, African American - People:
- Miller, Doris, 1919-1943
- Location:
- United States, 39.76, -98.5
- Medium:
- posters
- Type:
- StillImage
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- This poster features a large image of Doris "Dorie" Miller, an African American sailor who is celebrated as a hero of the Pearl Harbor attack on December 7, 1941. He led his fellow sailors, many of whom were injured, to safety, and he used a machine gun to shoot down Japanese planes. He was the first African American sailor to receive the Navy Cross. Miller died in battle in 1944.
Exhibited: African-American Odyssey: A Quest for Full Citizenship, Library of Congress, 1998.
The Civil Rights Digital Library received support from a National Leadership Grant for Libraries awarded to the University of Georgia by the Institute of Museum and Library Services for the aggregation and enhancement of partner metadata. - Local Identifier:
- Reproduction number: LC-USZC4-2328 (8-10) (b&w film neg.); (digital file from original negative)
- Metadata URL:
- http://crdl.usg.edu/id:loc_afamodyssey_0810001r
- Digital Object URL:
- http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/odyssey/archive/08/0810001r.jpg
- Language:
- eng
- Contributing Institution:
- Library of Congress
- Rights:
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