Blackface Performance at Camp Howze

Title: Blackface Performance at Camp Howze
Description: Photo of servicemen from the 409th Infantry regiment dressed in blackface and costume posed to advertise a performance planned to entertain GIs at Camp Howze.
Date: 1944-02-11
Source: “Men Without Women.” Camp Howze Howitzer, February 11, 1944.
https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1407209/.
University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, crediting Cooke County Library.
Subject: Blackface; Blackface minstrel; U.S. Army; WWII Entertainment; U.S. Military; Racism; Negro Soldier; Black soldier; 409th Infantry regiment; 103rd Infantry division; Camp Howze; Texas State College; Racist entertainment; colored soldier; white soldier; greatest generation

Item sets: Minorities of Camp Howze; Segregated Minority Service Members; Two Worlds - One Vision