Dorsey Willis at his honorable discharge ceremony

Dorsey Willis at his honorable discharge ceremony

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Dorsey Willis (second from right) with family members at a ceremony granting him an honorable discharge from the US Army on February 11, 1973. The Army had dishonorably discharged Willis in 1906 for his alleged involvement in the Brownsville Incident. Olive Willis (Dorsey’s wife) stands to his left. Photograph by Larry Schreiber for the Minneapolis Star. From box 346 of the Minneapolis and St. Paul newspaper negatives collection, Minnesota Historical Society, St. Paul.

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