Keywords: Negroes enroll for officer's training camp. Photograph shows Negroes enlisting at the (African Amer . . . - NARA - 533613.tif Scope and content The full caption for this item is as follows Negroes enroll for officer's training camp Photograph shows Negroes enlisting at the African American Young Men's Christian Association for the Negro Officers' Training Camp at Fort Des Moines Iowa A Merrill Willis sitting was the first man to enlist General notes 533613 Local identifier 165-WW-127 121 War Department 1789 - 09/18/1947 NARA-Author Thompson Paul Photographer 1882699 <br /> Still Picture Records Section Special Media Archives Services Division NWCS-S National Archives at College Park 8601 Adelphi Road College Park MD 20740-6001 1917 - ca 1919 Record group Record Group 165 Records of the War Department General and Special Staffs 1860 - 1952 Record group ARC 494 American Unofficial Collection of World War I Photographs compiled 1917 - 1918 Series ARC 533461 File unit File unit ARC Variant control numbers NAIL Control Number NWDNS-165-WW-127 121 yes Other versions NARA-cooperation PD-USGov African American soldiers of World War I Fort Des Moines |