Henry Ossian Flipper was born on March 21, 1856, to enslaved parents and graduated in June 1877 from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, one year after Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer was killed ...
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• On June 15, 1877, Henry Ossian Flipper, born a slave in Thomasville, Ga., in 1856, is the first black cadet to graduate from the United States Military Academy. Flipper was never spoken to by a ...
COLORED CADET AT WEST POINT : AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF LIEUT HENRY OSSIAN FLIPPER FIRST GRADUATE OF COLOR FROM THE U S MILITARY ACADEMY ...
Collection of papers on the subject from files of the Department of the Army, now in the collection of the National Archives.
Imagine being the “first” to do something, a person who has chosen to tread a path no one has ever walked before. Now envision that the course you have chosen is one that will make a lot of people not ...
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