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March 21 – Photograph of Lt. Henry O. Flipper
by Darren Cole on March 21, 2011
Photograph of Lt. Henry O. Flipper, Photo by Kennedy, ca. 1877 (ARC ID 2668824); Center for Legislative Archives; Records of the U.S. House of Representatives; National Archives and Records Administration (Reproduced with the permission of the U.S. House of Representatives)
Born into slavery in Thomasville, Georgia, on March 21, 1856, Henry Ossian Flipper was appointed to the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York, in 1873. Over the next four years he overcame harassment, isolation, and insults to become West Point’s first African American graduate and the first African American commissioned officer in the regular U.S. Army.
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