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<ul><li><b>Scope and content:</b>  The full caption for this item is as follows: Negroes enroll for officer's training camp. Photograph shows Negroes enlisting at the [African American] Young Men's Christian Association for the Negro Officers' Training Camp at Fort Des Moines, Iowa. A. Merrill Willis (sitting) was the first man to enlist.</li></ul></div>
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Thompson, Paul, Photographer (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://research.archives.gov/person/1882699">NARA record: 1882699</a>)<br></div>
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