A Rare Find in the Military Archives: A Little-Known Poem by Dudley Randall

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Visiting Assistant Professor of Science in Society Natalie Shibley was combing through the digital archives of the Apache Sentinel for her book on African-American service members and homosexuality investigations when she came across something unexpected. It was a poem titled “USO Incident” by prominent poet of the Black Arts Movement Dudley Randall, published in a 1943 edition of the newspaper.