Mustafa “John” Ali jumped ship twice in Baltimore during the 1920s. The first time, he worked in factories for a time and then returned to ship work. The second time, he stayed. He married a young African American woman from West Baltimore, had three children, and then spent the next several decades moving around the industrial U.S., working in steel mills in Ohio, a shipbuilding company in Chester Pennsylvania, and an auto factory in Detroit.
Mustafa “John” Ali jumped ship twice in Baltimore during the 1920s. The first time, he worked in factories for a time and then returned to ship work. The second time, he stayed.
Mustafa “John” Ali jumped ship twice in Baltimore during the 1920s. The first time, he worked in factories for a time and then returned to ship work. The second time, he stayed.
Mustafa “John” Ali jumped ship twice in Baltimore during the 1920s. The first time, he worked in factories for a time and then returned to ship work. The second time, he stayed.

Mustafa “John” Ali jumped ship twice in Baltimore during the 1920s. The first time, he worked in factories for a time and then returned to ship work. The second time, he stayed. He married a young African American woman from West Baltimore, had three children, and then spent the next several decades moving around the industrial U.S., working in steel mills in Ohio, a shipbuilding company in Chester Pennsylvania, and an auto factory in Detroit.

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