Photos of some of the places and events in First Comes Winter
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Eutaw Place Temple, Baltimore. 1940s.
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Hale County, Alabama. ca. 1942.
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Howard Street, Baltimore. 1940s.
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Naval Station Norfolk, Virginia. Early 1940s.
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Gold Coast's Oak St. Beach, Chicago. 1940s.
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SBD "Dauntless" bombers. June 1942.
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Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn. 1940s.
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South Side Chicago, early 1940s.
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USS Essex CV-9, 1943-1944.
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Detroit Race Riot, June 1943.
Source: Cosgrove, Ben “Hatred on the Home Front: The Detroit Race Riots During WWII”, Time Magazine, 6/18/14
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Majuro Atoll, Marshall Islands, early 1944.
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Pre-blast Port Chicago, California, ca. 1943.
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Pre-blast Port Chicago, California, ca. 1944
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Post-blast Port Chicago, California, July 1944.
Source: Archie, Ayana, “The Navy exonerates 256 Black sailors unjustly punished over 1944 WWII port explosion”; NPR, 7/18/24