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Amy Spingarn letter to Colonel Charles Young, September 1918

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Title	Amy Spingarn letter to Colonel Charles Young, September 1918
Subject	African American soldiers African American men Awards Military officers Correspondence Young, Charles, 1864-1922. World War I, 1914-1918
Time Period	1910s
Place	New York Wilberforce (Ohio) Greene County (Ohio)
Description	Letter from Amy Spingarn, wife of Major Joel E. Spinarn, to Colonel Charles Young sharing Major Spingarn's contact information in France. Major Spingarn was a member of the NAACP, as well as the creator of the Spingarn Award. Young and Spingarn were friends for many years, and Major Spingarn was a speaker at Colonel Young's memorial service in 1923. Charles Young was the first African American to reach the rank of Colonel in the U.S. Army and, at the time of his death in 1922, was the highest-ranking African American officer in the Army. He is known for having been forced into retirement due to health concerns before the start of World War I and later riding from Wilberforce, Ohio, to Washington, D.C. to prove his physical fitness for duty.
Date of Original	September 1918
Submitting Institution	National Afro-American Museum and Cultural Center
Type	text
File Name	index.cpd
File Size	417 Bytes
Format	manuscripts

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Type	text
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