Seventy years ago this week, on July 4, 1946, an interracial seagoing cowboy crew of college students recruited by the Fellowship of Southern Churchmen left Newport News, Virginia, on the S. S. Creighton Victory bound for Poland. The Church of the Brethren Gospel Messenger published the following article several months later:
from Gospel Messenger, November 2, 1946. Used with permission of Brethren Press.
Peggy Reiff Miller Collection, courtesy of Ben Kaneda
More to come on this crew in my next post.
The Seagoing Cowboys 