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8 finding aid(s) found containing the word(s) African-American soldiers.
Roscoe Robinson, Jr., papers, 1945-1993
10,500 items. 31 containers plus 5 classified. 120.2 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Army officer. Correspondence, speeches, interview transcripts, office files, thesis and term papers, photographs, scrapbooks, personnel records, awards and certificates, reports, and miscellaneous papers related to Robinson's military career.
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Black history collection, 1623-2008
1,215 items. 6 containers plus 2 oversize. 3.6 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Letters, court records, legal documents, slave deeds, financial records, speeches and writings, family and genealogical papers, military records, birth records, inventories, wills, ships' papers, a commonplace book, poll tax receipts, broadsides, postcards, marriage certificates, newspaper clippings, printed matter, and other material pertaining to African Americans.
Eugene Edwin Johnston papers, 1912-2008
2,000 items. 4 containers plus 1 oversize. 1.6 linear feet. 182 digital files (9.68 GB). -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Army officer. Correpondence, military papers, writings, photographs, awards, certificates, maps, printed matter, digital files, and other papers relating to Johnston's military career, particularly his service with the 92nd Infantry Division during World War II.
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Esther Hill Hawks papers, 1856-1867
520 items. 2 containers. 0.6 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Physician, educator, and abolitionist. Correspondence, diaries, and other papers relating to the work of Esther Hill Hawks and her husband, John Milton Hawks, caring for sick and wounded soldiers, including African Americans, in South Carolina during the Civil War, and as a teacher of African Americans in South Carolina and Florida during the Civil War and Reconstruction.
African American soldiers in World War II collection, 1918-2018
7,000 items. 20 containers. 8.0 linear feet. 3,170 digital files (118.23 GB). -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Correspondence, memoranda, oral history interviews, government documents, reports, notes, books, subject files, a scrapbook, photographs, newspaper clippings, printed matter, digital files, and other material documenting the World War II participation of African American soldiers of the 92nd and 93rd Infantry Divisions of the United States Army.
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Julius W. Becton papers, 1780-2008
69,300 items. 198 containers plus 8 oversize and 21 classified. 79.2 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Army officer, federal agency head, university president, public school superintendent. Correspondence, speeches, writings, military and civilian government documents, topical files, reports, printed matter, monographs, and miscellaneous material documenting Becton's army career, leadership of federal agencies, college presidency, and superintendency of a large, urban public school system.
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Elijah Reynolds papers, 1897-1959
350 items. 1 container plus 1 oversize. 0.5 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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United States Army officer. Writings, certificates, photographs, correspondence, medals, and other papers related chiefly to Reynolds’s service in the Twenty-Fifth Infantry Regiment during the Spanish-American War and Philippine American War, and his position as the instructor of military science and tactics at Dunbar High School in Washington, D.C.
Charles Augustus Hill papers, 1862-1971
300 items. 2 containers. 0.6 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Union army officer, lawyer, and United States representative from Illinois. Correspondence and miscellany relating primarily to Hill's military service and family.