Fifty-Fourth Annual Report of the President, Secretary and Treasurer to the Trustees   Save
Walter McGee Collection
Description: Two (2) articles. Page 28, "The State Institutions and Governor Cox," discusses the governor approving select college students to stop school and assist in the war effort. Page 29, "The Officer's Training Camp," mentions certain students were sent to the Officers' Training Camp at Ft. Des Moines and were said to have an advantage over others, thanks to their previous training at Wilberforce University. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: NAMMSS12B04F02p28-29
Subjects: African American Soldiers; Military training; World War I, 1914-1918; Wilberforce University
Places: Wilberforce (Ohio); Greene County (Ohio); Des Moines (Iowa)