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Newton Henry Mason was nominated for deletion. The discussion was closed on 13 January 2021 with a consensus to merge. Its contents were merged into USS Mason (DE-529). The original page is now a redirect to this page. For the contribution history and old versions of the redirected article, please see its history; for its talk page, see here.

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African Americans[edit]

I replaced the U.S. CGC listed as the other U.S. Navy ship with a mostly African-American crew with the USS PC-1264 as that is correct. The U.S. CGC mentioned had only about 1/3 of her crew who were African Americans.

Plus, the WP article on African Americans has the opinion that the hyphen in the term "African-American" should only be used when it is meant as an adjective. So I corrected an instance of that. Thomas R. Fasulo (talk) 23:52, 31 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Interesting Sidenote[edit]

The captain of the Mason, William Blackford, a white officer, was himself the great-grandson of a renowned abolitionist, Mary Berkeley Minor Blackford. Irish Melkite (talk) 05:34, 29 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]