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1936
Nigerian musician and composer Fela Sowande (1905 – 1987) with his fiance, American soprano Mildred Marshall, in Regent’s Park, London, 13th September 1936. Sowande is working as a the pianist and Marshall is singing in the London production of Lew Leslie’s musical revue, ‘Blackbirds Of 1936’.
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1945
Frederick C. Branch (1922 – 2005), the first African American to be commissioned in the United States Marine Corps, gets his second Lieutenant bars pinned on him by his wife Camilla ‘Peggy’ Branch, November 1945. being pinned with his second lieutenant bars by his wife, Camilla ‘Peggy’ Branch.