[Blacks and Jews; photograph 0013]

Contributor:

Salzmann, Laurence (photographer)

Name:

Bass, Leon

Description:

Photographer's note: Leon Bass, as a member of the 183rd Engineer Combat Battalion (an all Black unit with white officers), was present at the liberation of Buchenwald in 1945. Dr. Bass presently lectures on the evils of racism as he experienced it first hand. More about Leon Bass can be found at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Bass. Dr. Bass studied at Temple University where he received his Doctorate.

Provenance:

Gift of Laurence and Ayșe Salzmann, 2018.

Relation:

Finding aid https://findingaids.library.upenn.edu/records/UPENN_RBML_PUSP.MS.COLL.1424

Resource Type:

Still Image

Form/Genre:

photographs

Physical Description:

1 photograph

Geographic Subject:

United States -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia

Rights:

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/

Rights Note:

© Laurence Salzmann.

Physical Location:

Ms. Coll. 1424

Collection:

Laurence and Ayşe Gürsan-Salzmann Collection