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Color Bearers Pass Women Marine Window

Two women marines carrying the US flag and Marine Corps flag standing in front of a stained glass window
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Description: Painting, Watercolor on Paper, By Cecile Ryden Johnson; 1963; Unframed Dimensions 30H X 22W
Accession #: 88-161-VK
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This painting highlights the women of the color guard of the Marine Corps at Quantico, Virginia.  In 1949, the first African American woman, Annie E. Graham of Detroit, Michigan enlisted in the Marine Corps.  The next day she was joined by another African American woman, Ann E. Lamb in New York City. 

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