Draft cards of famous people from WWI


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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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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harry "handcuff" houdini? what a wag!

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

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

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

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