Dorsey Willis receiving an apology and honorable discharge

Dorsey Willis (center right) greets an Army representative at a ceremony granting him an apology and honorable discharge on February 11, 1973. The Army had dishonorably discharged Willis in 1906 for his alleged involvement in the Brownsville Incident. Olive Willis (Dorsey’s wife) stands at center left. Photograph by Larry Schreiber for the Minneapolis Star. From box 346 of the Minneapolis and St. Paul newspaper negatives collection, Minnesota Historical Society, St. Paul.