Word: fortaliaferro
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
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