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This image is a work of an U.S. Air Force Airman or employee, taken or made during the course of the person's official duties. As a work of the U.S. federal government, the image is in the public domain.

This is a slightly cropped image of part of a group of 101 African-American United States Army Air Forces officers of the 477th Bombardment Group (Medium) at Freeman Field, Indiana, about to board air transports to take them to Godman Field, Kentucky. The officers were under arrest for refusing to sign a document acknowledging that they had read a regulation denying them access to an all-white officers' club. The photo was taken in April 1945, probably by Master Sergeant Harold J. Beaulieu, Sr., who hid a camera in a shoebox. (See James C. Warren, The Freeman Field Mutiny, ISBN 0-9641067-2-8, p. 93.) A similar photo taken by Beaulieu appeared in the Pittsburgh Courier. Photos taken at the scene by another African-American photographer reportedly were destroyed by a white officer. (Warren at p. 92.)

TITLE: [Review of officers during the Freeman Field mutiny, Freeman Field, Indiana]

CALL NUMBER: LOT 13104, no. 17 [P&P]

REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-134792 (b&w film copy neg.) No known restrictions on publication.

MEDIUM: 1 photographic print : gelatin silver.

CREATED/PUBLISHED: [between 1941 and 1945]

NOTES:

Title devised by Library staff.

Inscribed on verso: Capt. [Anthony A.] Chaippe in green shirt checking his officers off - Capt. Chaippe gave direct order to afix signature to Base Reg. 85.2 which these 82 officers refused to sign.

Forms part of: NAACP photographs of African American Army Air Force ... from the Visual Materials from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Records (Library of Congress).

SUBJECTS:

United States. Army Air Forces--People--1940-1950. World War, 1939-1945--Military personnel--Indiana--Freeman Field. African Americans--Military service--1940-1950. African Americans--Civil rights--1940-1950. Mutinies--Indiana--Freeman Field--1940-1950. Segregation--Indiana--Freeman Field--1940-1950.

FORMAT:

Gelatin silver prints 1940-1950.

PART OF: NAACP photographs of African American Army Air Force pilots, mechanics and officers at Tuskegee Army Air Field, Alabama

REPOSITORY: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

DIGITAL ID: (digital file from b&w film copy neg.) cph 3c34792 [1]

CARD #: 2004681714

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