A 1919 American Red Cross press release about an award given to African American volunteer Rev. R. H. Windsor.

This press release announces the American Red Cross (ARC) award of a twelve-star service pin to Reverend R. H. Windsor, a “zealous Red Cross worker” from Rayville, Louisiana. Windsor received this award because of the enlistment of twelve of his nineteen of his sons in the military during World War I. W. E. B. Du Bois collected this press release, likely for use in a book to be titled The Black Man in the Wounded World.

Citation Information
“American Red Cross presents twelve-star service pin to colored soldiers,” Digital Public Library of America, https://dp.la/item/9a014ef89211c1bcd68da4330f1d7d1b.
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Courtesy of Special Collections and University Archives, University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries via Digital Commonwealth.

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