Draft cards of famous people from WWI

Posted by Cory Doctorow, February 21, 2008 7:40 AM | permalink

The US archive maintains a collection of scans of famous peoples' draft cards from WWI, including Louis Armstrong, Fred Astaire, Jimmy Cagney, Cecil B DeMille, Marcus Garvey, Harry Houdini, and Upton Sinclair. Link

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#1 posted by beergood , February 21, 2008 7:55 AM

After reading that list my first thought was "Marcus Garvey who?"

After a quick web search I am once again terribly proud of my public education.

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#2 posted by franko , February 21, 2008 9:05 AM

harry "handcuff" houdini? what a wag!

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#3 posted by Adam Stanhope

, February 21, 2008 9:14 AM

Beergood:

There's a classic reggae tune with the refrain:

No one remembers
Old Marcus Garvey

...so you're apparently not alone.

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#4 posted by rAMPANTiDIOCY , February 21, 2008 10:16 AM

Marcus Garvey and i share a birthday. one more link, for this white boy, to the Struggle.

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#5 posted by Halloween Jack , February 21, 2008 10:44 AM

Reading through the names, I'm imagining the most awesome Howling Commandos-type platoon ever.

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#6 posted by Downpressor , February 21, 2008 8:52 PM

Thats a piece of Garvey history I havent seen before. Nice that!