Henry Ossian Flipper
by
Gallon
America's First Black Graduate of West Point
Near the Rio Grande River, Texas, 1880-2nd Lt Henry O. Flipper scouts with Company A, 10th Cav. Reg. He endured four years of harassment to become, in 1877, the first African-American graduate of West Point. Dismissed in 1882 after a court martial on trumped-up charges involving commissariat funds, he campaigned the rest of his life for reinstatement. He pursued a long and successful civilian career as an engineer; 36 years after his death the army granted him an honorable discharge dated June 30, 1882.

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