Message received 21 Jun 1943 at 5:52 pm
21 June 1943 5:52 pm
A story that was secret for 50 years
Today's Document from the National Archives- A Letter from Henry O. FlipperBorn 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 […]
- A Letter from Henry O. Flipper
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