Hugh Mulzac

de bene esse: literally, of well-being, morally acceptable but subject to future validation or exception

Hugh Mulzac, the first African-American captain in the U.S. Navy to command an integrated crew during World War II, with his family at a 1940s dinner in his honor in Brooklyn, New York. Paul Robeson spoke and Hazel Scott performed during the evening. 

 

Photo: Joseph Schwartz/Corbis.