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Ship-USS Philadelphia (CL-41)
US Navy Light Cruiser USS Philadelphia (CL-41) was a Brooklyn-class light cruiser of the United States Navy. She was the fifth ship named for Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In September 1940, fifteen of the ship's African American mess men wrote an open letter to a newspaper protesting the treatment of African Americans in the Navy. "We sincerely hope to discourage any other colored boys who might have planned to join the Navy and make the same mistake we did. All they would become is seagoing bell hops, chambermaids and dishwashers," they wrote. On publication of the letter, the fifteen were confined to the brig. They were later dishonorably discharged. In the 1950s, she was commissioned into the Brazilian Navy as Almirante Barroso.
| Date | 1943 |
| File name | Ship-USS Philadelphia (CL-41).jpg |
| File Size | 139.13k |
| Dimensions | 740 x 577 |
| Linked to | Daniel Joseph Bingham (Military Service); Daniel Joseph Bingham |
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