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The Reader’s Notebook: Henry Ossian Flipper

US Army Center Of Military History

March 21, 2018 -- Henry Ossian Flipper was an American soldier, former slave and, in 1877, the first African American to graduate from the United States Military Academy at West Point, earning a commission as a second lieutenant in the US Army.

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