"Colored Citizens Observe Holiday"

Title: "Colored Citizens Observe Holiday"
Description: An article about black Gainesville residents coordinating with the local USO for black Camp Howze soldiers to celebrate the emancipation of people who had been enslaved in Texas.
Date: 1943-06-19
Source: "Colored Citizens Observe Holiday," Gainesville Daily Register, June 19, 1943. Crediting Cooke County Library, Gainesville, TX.
Subject: black soldiers; Camp Howze; World War II; WWII; greatest generation; USO; segregation; Jim Crow; slavery; Juneteenth; U.S. Army; negro soldier; colored soldier; colored USO; celebration

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