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Re: maritime history and African Americans

You might find oral history leads if you can get in touch with merchant marine people who sailed from the period 1946-55. Unions were strong then; early in those years some unions had no African American members -- others accepted black seamen. The unions, under contract, supplied men to the shipping...

Posted to The Need for Maritime History Education (Forum) by Munozzzzz on 12-26-2007

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