Word: bookers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Slight, grizzled Hugh Mulzac, ex-seaman, ex-mess boy, was catapulted front & center last week to become a Symbol of Negro participation in the war. When the Liberty freighter Booker T. Washington goes into service from California Shipbuilding's Los Angeles yard in mid-October, the Maritime Commission decided, she will be commanded by a British West Indies-born Brooklyn man, the first Negro to hold a U. S. master's certificate and the first to command a 10,500-ton ship. Captain Mulzac not only promised that he would be able to get qualified Negro officers...
...Booker T. (forTaliaferro) will serve not only in the war of ocean transport but in the war against race discrimination. Many an organization and more individuals jumped at the chance to make a symbol of this namesake of a great American educator. First Liberty ship to bear a Negro's name, she is the first to be christened by a member of the Negro race-Marian Anderson, contralto-and the first to heed a Negro's command, the first to flout time-encrusted taboos against "checkerboarding" among licensed personnel...
...annuity which should bring him $11,000 a year, starting in 1944. He has put his baby sister Veunice through Howard University, supports 27 assorted kinfolk in Detroit alone. The good Lord has also seen to it that Joe's head be sculptured for posterity, like that of Booker T. Washington and other Negro idols...
Tenors Willie Langford and Henry Owen, Baritone Willie Johnson and Basso Orlandus Wilson began singing together in Norfolk, Va.'s Booker T. Washington High School, got on local radio programs even before they graduated in 1935. They had already been on records (Bluebird) and the radio before they were discovered, barnstorming the South, by crew-cropped Jazz Pundit John Hammond. He presented them to Manhattan more than a year ago, and Café Society shortly signed them. Tenor Clyde Riddick took Willie Langford's place in the quartet...
...Failure of Cotton Diplomacy during the Civil War." Two other yearlings were given Honorable Mention in the contest: W. M. Flook, Jr., of New York, for a paper on "The American Way: Phrenology" and W. L. Kydd, Jr., of New Redford, for an essay entitled "In Defense of Booker T. Washington...