USO Servicemen Club

ID: 5863 ~ Source: Devrick Barnett, “USO Clubs in Spokane,” Spokane Historical, accessed November 16, 2023, https://spokanehistorical.org/items/show/872.

This file appears in: The Murder of Private Samuel Hicks: Spokane's Black Servicemen

This file appears in: The Murder of Private Samuel Hicks: Spokane's Black Servicemen

The Murder of Private Samuel Hicks: Spokane's Black Servicemen

By Shane Oleary & Angelina Vosahlo

Black service members who served their nation in Spokane have faced racial discrimination, including one particularly heinous incident that occurred at Geiger Air Force Base in 1946.