Wilmeth Sidat-Singh

Wilmeth Sidat-Singh
Poster from Office for Emergency Management, Office of War Information News Bureau, 1943
NicknameThe Syracuse Walking Dream
BornFebruary 13, 1918 (1918-02-13)
Washington, D.C., U.S.
DiedMay 9, 1943(1943-05-09) (aged 25)
Lake Huron
AllegianceUnited States
BranchUnited States Army Air Forces
United States Air Force
Service years1943

Wilmeth Sidat-Singh (née William Webb; February 13, 1918 – May 9, 1943) was a U.S. Army Air Corps officer with the Tuskegee Airmen, and an American basketball and football player who was subject to segregation in college and professional sports in the 1930s.

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