Sunday, June 3, 2018

Army Training School for Chaplains and approved chaplain candidates, Camp Zachary Taylor, Louisville, Ky., "Lining up for Mess". June 1, 1918.



Note that, in this last photograph, there's a chaplain or chaplain candidate who appears to be black, bottom row, fourth from left.  If that's correct, this would be a highly unusual example of a black officer serving in an integrated school at a time at which the Army was highly segregated.  Perhaps, given the roles chaplains fulfilled, this is a rare example of an exception to the prevailing rule of the time.

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