Negro League Thomas Turner

Well known entertainer and actor Lena Horne enchants the SCU baseball team on a visit to Fort Huachuca in 1944.  Tom is standing on the far left, hands on hips, in front of the microphone where he introduced Ms. Horne.

A few of the SCU team pose for a photo in uiform with a commanding officer.  The article on the left discusses an anti-discrimination law in New York State that caused major league baseball to hire Jackie Robinson two years later in 1947.

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