(MILITARY WORLD WAR TWO) The Veterans Justice Committee Tes

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(MILITARY--WORLD WAR TWO.) The Veterans Justice Committee Testimonial Dinner. Photograph, 10 x 20 inches; several vertical folds, minor edge wear. New York, 28 February 1947

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In May 1945, two African-American soldiers in France, Allen Leftridge and Frank Glenn, were killed by a military policeman for speaking with a waitress serving doughnuts at a Red Cross tent. Leftridge's widow was denied benefits. The next year, the Veterans Justice Committee was formed to address this and other grievances. This dinner was held in honor of the committee's advisory chairman, Ludlow W. Werner, who had taken up their cause as editor of the New York Age. Labor leader A. Philip Randolph spoke at the event. We have not yet picked him out in this crowd, which featured many dozens of both black and white faces in support of a good cause.