ON THIS DAY IN AMERICAN HISTORY | |
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On June 15, 1877, Henry Ossian Flipper, a formerly enslaved man, is the first African American to graduate from the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York. During his four years at West Point, Flipper was never spoken to by a white cadet. (Photo: Cadet Henry O. Flipper in his West Point cadet uniform circa 1877.) |
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