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Title A name given to the resource Brenda Hill Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource The Torch Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Morehouse College Archives Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1960 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource All images in this collection either are protected by copyright or are the property of the Robert W. Woodruff Library of the Atlanta University Center, Inc., and/or the copyright holder as appropriate. To order a reproduction or to inquire about permission to publish, please contact archives@auctr.edu with specific object file name. 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Ways of Seeing: Art History, Curating and Museums examines selected examples of African American and Western art. Via an online immersive course, students learn the role of curators, are introduced to museums, and engage with the High Museum of Art, art and archival collections in the Atlanta University Center and other significant collections. Diversity of the museum and its staff as well as its changing audiences is explored. Students prepare to be art historians and/or curators by completing exhibition projects drawn from the High Museum of Art’s collection. The course is taught through a hybrid of synchronous and asynchronous delivery. Artworks in this collection are selected from Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library, Clark Atlanta University Art Museum, Spelman College Museum of Art, ad the High Museum of Art, . Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. 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Type The nature or genre of the resource Magazines (periodicals) Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Time Magazine Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Johnson Publishing Company Clippings File Collection Subject The topic of the resource African American politicians; Voter Education Project (Atlanta, Ga.) Language A language of the resource en Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library https://glamportal.auctr.edu/files/original/ac1a3df23f7ac30c915ce8f5d23dc780.jpg 8a4e02ad594713a07c6e4c2be8554117 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Magazine article, "Negroes at War" with image of African American soldiers in a military tank with the caption, "Tank manned by three Negro Noncoms and technician-gunner maneuvers under sunny Louisiana skies. They belong to 758th (GHQ) Tank Battalion." https://glamportal.auctr.edu/files/original/959caea937999207b7b12fe87645c22e.jpg f9454eecea06f7049b884e3d6c3fd8bf Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource A group of African American color guard members walk through the snow holding rifles and flags. Image caption: A CRACK NEGRO REGIMENT, commanded by Negro officers, is Harlem's 369th whose color guard is shown at winter quarters in upstate New York. In World War I the 369th was part of General Henri Gouraud's Fourth French Army. It was 191 days under fire, never gave a foot of ground, never lost a prisoner, was the first Allied regiment to reach the Rhine. https://glamportal.auctr.edu/files/original/a8cec25f1ee48ea17e65ec1bd8c157df.jpg 9c748d64cb1f18ab84d0840167fbf3b6 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Magazine article images: (top) cavalry soldiers riding horses over a hill, image caption: Negro cavalry troop raises a cloud of dust as it rides down a hill near Fort Riley. Negro cavalry has been a part of regular army since Civil War; (bottom left) image of African American blacksmith fitting a horseshoe on a horse, image caption: A troop blacksmith shoes a 10th Cavalry mount. Negro soldiers get along with horses, who draw no color line; (bottom center) African American soldier on horseback surrounded by dogs, another soldier on horseback stays in the background, image caption: Sgt. Will Black of the 10th Cavalry dons a green coat on Sunday afternoons and acts as whipper in cavalry school hunt; (bottom right) a man and woman are seated in front of a staircase petting a dog while two children stand on the staircase behind them, smiling for the camera, image caption: NEGRO NONCOMS with families, like Master Sgt. Pentecost Daniel of 9th Cavalry, have own homes at Fort Riley. https://glamportal.auctr.edu/files/original/f6fe3a8f95126368154b75cd2f90908c.jpg 459714956c9908f4d934e6e77c799931 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Magazine article images: (top left) image caption: Four Nashville boys with "Avenge Pearl Harbor" armbands joined up when Navy dropped anti-Negro ban. Previously Negroes could only serve as mess attendants; (top right) image caption: Trench-digging class of 388th Engineers at Camp Claiborne, La. raises shovels for counting. Army has put many Negroes in engineer units, teaches them to build railroads, barracks, bridges; (bottom right) image caption: Sgt. Leslie Lewis of 758th Tank Battalion at Claiborne shows how he would go into action with tommy gun if intercepted by enemy. He also has a revolver. He carries messages to tank commanders; (bottom left) image caption: First Negro Marine recruit in Nashville, George Thompson, dogcatcher, is sworn in. Said George: "Those Japs are just like the mongrels I been picking up." https://glamportal.auctr.edu/files/original/a5f631ff1c04fd21ceb1a3465cc555c1.jpg febe2e3db18c22486b4dd349b24aff15 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Image captions: (top left) USO at Alexandria, La. has two clubhouses - one for white, one for Negro troops. They are alike in every detail. This one has a dance floor, game room, bar where townspeople serve drinks and food; (top right) Cavalry boots thump the floor hard at Friday night dance in Fort Riley USO clubhouse. There is about one girl to every ten soldiers, creating a real rationing problem; (bottom left) Sunday morning services for cavalry regiments at Fort Riley are featured by earnest praying and singing. Many of these boys are sharecroppers' sons. Here the choir sings, Lord, I am Troubled; (bottom right) Sgt. Joseph Caliban, trumpeter of the 367th Infantry Band, has gained 160 lb. on Army food in 16 years, now weighs 325. Here he sings Ants in Your Pants to officers. https://glamportal.auctr.edu/files/original/e138fca79497515230bfe57d14feb220.jpg 16f9a283640fdbe23c8f4efdcff3aad8 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Image captions: (top left) Aircraft worker Mel Nickerson shows work to Col. Robert Ginsburgh at Lockheed-Vega plant, Burbank, Calif. Lockheed was first big aircraft firm to hire many Negroes; (top right) North American Aviation's J.H. Kindelberger chats with two of his 600-odd Negro employes. Kindelberger once said he would hire Negroes only as janitors, has since changed his mind; (bottom left) Plate bender at Norfolk Navy Yard, Portsmouth, Va. must have a high degree of skill. Navy yards have upped Negro workers over 100% in last year, now employ 16,000; (bottom right) Tallyman Moses Baker weighs boxes of finished shells at Winchester Repeating Arms plant. He once served 5 years in the Navy, tried to re-enlist a day after Pearl Harbor. He earns $42 a week. https://glamportal.auctr.edu/files/original/ad63a9d87b64e0d775f9a01c7103c41b.jpg 86e020e2b194cdfd87a527ceb8a4e9b4 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Image caption: A Negro-owned and operated war factory is Pacific Parachute Co. in San Diego, which makes parachutes for Army and Navy flares. Owner is Eddie Anderson, "Rochester" of Jack Benny's program (center right). Manager is Skipper Smith (left) who has made 254 parachute jumps. Workers are white, Mexican and Negro girls, working side by side. https://glamportal.auctr.edu/files/original/99f89a4fc8c10201af532f4cd6d43c0b.jpg bd5cadd977feaa578492362dea65f96e Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Image caption: Seventy-five first-aid classes are held in Harlem schools, churches, apartment houses, stores and theaters. Department-store clerks and movie ushers have been taught how to take care of air-raid victims. Some Harlem doctors and nurses have been giving first-aid courses seven nights a week since Pearl Harbor. Here a class practices artificial respiration. https://glamportal.auctr.edu/files/original/46d19302bd30cd3f809c1049bd8a6869.jpg e4cffeb65d6e89bcb3519658745c7539 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Image captions: (top left) Eye "victim" is bandaged by Harlem first aider; (right) Police captain Walter Harding of the 28th New York City precinct directs civilian defense work in lower west side Harlem. Here he gives orders to 500 air-raid wardens. At this meeting wardens set up make-believe disaster organization on a theater platform (below) and practiced what they would do if a Nazi plane landed on a Harlem street.; (bottom left) Harlem member of American Women's Voluntary Services, Mrs. S.H. Craig, starts a sweater for city health service. https://glamportal.auctr.edu/files/original/262dd0b8015245198901becddade113e.jpg 82865a36faaed85e8a84c1560951a38b Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Image captions: (top) Social center and defense post as well as this zone headquarters for Harlem air-raid wardens. Male wardens gather here to play cards, read papers, listen to radio. Lady wardens cook snacks on a small stove, keep the floor clean.; (bottom) In sober-faced pairs, dawn patrol sets forth on its Harlem rounds. Sometimes leader is a barber, sometimes a city tax inspector or an unemployed waiter. Regular members include laborers, housemaids, postal clerks. Women members make their own uniforms from old khaki pants, embroidered with C.D.C. (Civilian Defense Corps) in red, white and blue. https://glamportal.auctr.edu/files/original/656dd71c25a493dc08c432f973eb6714.jpg ff9adde078096542619608d05071e287 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Image caption: sunrise finds Harlem dawn patrol dousing a roof-top incendiary Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document Negroes at War All they want now is a fair chance to fight The picture above of an all-Negro crew in a fast new 13-ton U.S. Army tank will probably be a surprise to many U.S. citizens. But this summer it could be duplicated hundreds of times at training camps throughout the country. By next spring it could be duplicated several thousand times. The U.S. Army is getting rid of its old prejudices against the Negro and is putting him where he will do the most good – in the front ranks of its fighting men. At Camp Claiborne, La., where this picture was taken, the white colonel commanding a Negro outfit told LIFE Photographer K. Chester: “I’m a cotton-patch Southerner myself, and I don’t call these boys niggers. I call them American soldiers and damned good ones!” This is bad news for the propagandists of Germany and Japan, who have long nursed a delusion that the 13,000,000 U.S. Negroes were ripe for rebellion and would surely refuse to fight. It is perfectly true that U.S. Negroes have never had a square deal from the U.S. white majority, but they know their lot could be far worse under the racial fanatics of the Axis. Now, when their country needs them, they are glad to work and fight and die alongside their white fellow-citizens. That is the spirit which will some day wipe every trace of racial bigotry off the map of America. Negro troops have a fighting tradition Negro soldiers have fought under all the great generals, in all the great wars and in most of the famous battles of U.S. history. And they have fought well. A Negro, Crispus Attucks, was the first American to fall under British fire in the Boston Massacre of 1770. Negroes fought beside the Minute Men at Bunker Hill and the Continentals at Red Bank, N.J., where George Washington himself singled them out for praise. When Andrew Jackson stopped the British invaders at New Orleans in 1815, a battalion of “free men of color” formed part of his front line. In the Civil War, 161 regiments of Negro troops turned the tide for the North; without their help, said president Lincoln, “neither the present nor any coming administration can save the Union.” In the State of Mississippi alone more Negro soldiers enlisted to fight for the Union than white men did for the Confederacy. Negro cavalrymen like those above chased Indians in the West and rescued the Rough Riders at San Juan Hill. In World War I, more than 200,000 Negro troops went to France. One of them, Private Henry Johnson, an ex-red cap from Albany, got into a battle with 24 Germans in a no-man’s-land outpost. He killed four of them with bullets, rifle butt and bolo knife, probably killed a fifth with grenades, wounded and drove off all the others. The French called this “The Battle of Henry Johnson.” This proud record has already been extended in World War II. At Pearl Harbor Dec. 7, a Negro messman, Dorie Miller, dashed to the bridge of his ship, helped carry his mortally wounded captain to a place of greater safety and manned a machine gun until ordered below. He has just been awarded a Navy Cross. In the Philippines the first man of the armored forces to fall in action was Private Robert Brooks, son of a Negro sharecropper of Sadieville, Ky. Today the main parade ground at Fort Knox, headquarters for the U.S. armored forces, is named Brooks Field in his honor. They thrive on Army work, food and fun For the average Negro volunteer or draftee, Army life is no hardship. He is used to hard physical work, which is nine-tenths of a soldier’s routine. He wants to learn about machinery and motors, and the Army gives him a chance. He likes the feel of a weapon in his hands, and thoroughly enjoys bayonet practice. The food is better than he generally gets at home. The base pay of an Army private ($21 a month, soon to be raised to $46 or more) does not look too meager. His living quarters, food, pay, furloughs, opportunities for recreation are equal to that received by white soldiers. There has been a decided increase in the number of Negroes attending officer-candidate schools. Except in the Air Corps, they are being trained in the same classes with whites. Disturbances growing out of race relations in the Army have been few and widely scattered. One such disturbance at Alexandria, La., in January 1942, started when a Negro soldier resisted arrest by a white policeman. A crowd gathered and civilian policemen and one military policeman indulged in indiscriminate and unnecessary shooting. Twenty-nine Negro soldiers were injured, one of them critically. (Rumors that four or more were killed were denied by the Army.) The sensational Negro press has done its best to magnify affairs such as this into “race riots,” but there is every indication that cooperation and friendly feeling between the races is today higher than ever in the Army. On June 1, 1942, a long-standing wrong against American Negroes was removed when the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps began taking colored recruits for combat duty (see photos above & below). Harlem buzzes with civilian defense tasks Probably there is no place in the nation where civil defense is now a more burning topic than in Harlem, largest Negro community in the world. There are 300,000 Negroes in Harlem and at least a quarter of them are doing some kind of war work. About 15,000 are enrolled as air-raid wardens. Countless Harlem women are learning first aid, knitting sweaters, serving in canteens, studying internal combustion engines. Even the angels of Father Divine are being fingerprinted by Harlem branches of the American Women’s Voluntary Services. Soon after Pearl Harbor some Harlem streetwalkers began enrolling as air-raid wardens and wearing white badges on their arms but the police stopped that. The Citizens of Harlem have real cause for their concern. They live in one of the most overcrowded city areas in the world. There is one Harlem block which has between 3,200 and 3,300 residents. When and if enemy bombs fall in Harlem, the slaughter will be terrific. And volunteers like those pictured on these pages will have to bear the first brunt of such a calamity. Dawn patrol is Harlem’s own war idea Every day at 4 a.m. a procession like the one below winds through the streets of Harlem. This is the “dawn patrol” of Air Raid Protection Zone 2, 28th police precinct, New York City. Wardens of Zone 2 are not satisfied to stand the usual watches in eight-hour shifts. They get together in groups of 30 or 40 before dawn each day and drill until the sun comes up. Around 6 they all have breakfast in their headquarters (left) and the ones who have jobs go off to work. The others go home and sleep. These early morning hours are full of excitement for members of the dawn patrol. First they select an “objective” – a roped-off street or a roof top. Then they sound an imaginary air-raid alarm. Then the imaginary “bombs” begin to fall – on churches, schools and big apartment houses. Casualties are reported, rescues made, fires put out, “broken” water mains repaired – all in vivid make-believe. At the end of a busy hour or two the patrol drafts a written report. Usually these reports are straight factual accounts of work done, but one day last winter an enthusiastic dawn patroller wrote: “The weather was fair and cold to the ladies’ hands and legs, but all was in good spirits as we marched on to the Zone 2 headquarters.” Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. 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