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- Creator is exactly "Lyles, Elbert"
Lyles, Elbert (Interview outline and video), 2011
Elbert Lyles was born in Mississippi in 1920. After leaving school in 1936, he worked as an iceman and in a cottonseed plant. He enlisted in the Army in 1942 and served in both North Africa and Italy in an all black engineer battalion. During his…