Camp robert smalls biography
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Camp Robert Smalls was a United States Naval training facility, created pursuant to an order signed April 21, , by Frank Knox, then Secretary of the Navy, for the purpose of training African-American seamen at a time when the USN was still segregated by race.
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The former Camp Barry at Great Lakes was renamed after Robert Smalls, a former slave who had become a Black naval hero during the Civil War. In March , he first .
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On April 21, , ‘Camp Robert Smalls’ was established on the ‘Great Lakes Naval Training Center’ in Illinois, U.S., to train African–American soldiers for the Second World War. An .
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Camp Robert Smalls was a United States Naval training facility, created pursuant to an order signed April 21, by Frank Knox, then Secretary of the Navy, for the purpose of training .