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Airmen with Lena Horne and Noel Parrish

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Title:Airmen with Lena Horne and Noel Parrish
Date:1941-1945
Description:

This black-and-white photograph shows Brigadier General Noel F. Parrish and famous African American singer Lena Horne sitting among the airmen at a banquet at Tuskegee Institute in Tuskegee, Alabama.

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Types:Black-and-white photographs
Subjects:Horne, Lena | Parrish, Noel Francis | United States. Army Air Forces. Fighter Group, 332nd | African American air pilots--Alabama--Tuskegee | Generals--United States | African American men--Alabama--Tuskegee | African American women--Alabama--Tuskegee | African American women musicians | Tuskegee Institute | Dinners and dining--Alabama--Tuskegee | Tuskegee (Ala.) | Macon County (Ala.)
Collection:African American Odyssey
Institution:Library of Congress
Contributors:Library of Congress. Prints and Photographs Division | African-American Odyssey Collection (Library of Congress)
Online Publisher:Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress
Original Material:

Noel Parrish Collection. Library of Congress, Manuscripts Division. Washington, D.C.(silver gelatin print)

Related Materials:

Exhibited: African-American Odyssey: A Quest for Full Citizenship, Library of Congress, 1998.

Persistent Link to Item:http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/odyssey/archive/08/0807001r.jpg