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Image Title: Writes Marching Song For Taaf, circa 1941

Date: Between 1941 and 1945

Summary: Photograph shows "T/Sgt. James O.B. Moseley of the 313th Army Air Force Band" at the Tuskegee Army Air Field, Tuskegee, Alabama, "receiving congratulations from the Post Surgeon, Lt. Col. Richard C. Cumming" for the winning entry in a contest held at the post, with an "outstanding marching song".

Notes: Caption continues: "Sergeant Moseley's song was selected as the outstanding marching song in a post contest recently conducted at this field. In addition to winning fifty dollars as the first prize, the former music professor of Southern University was granted a ten day furlough to visit his family in New York City. The musically talented sergeant also composed the famous Morehouse College song."|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 ().

Subjects: African Americans--Military service--1940-1950
Awards--Alabama--Tuskegee Army Air Field--1940-1950
Moseley, James O.B.,--1909-1994--Military service
United States.--Army Air Forces--People--1940-1950
World War, 1939-1945--Military personnel--Alabama--Tuskegee

Original Media: Photograph

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