The colored cadet at West Point

by Henry Ossian Flipper

Paper Book, 1998

Status

Available

Call number

Autobiographies / Flipper

Genres

Collection

Autobiographies

Publication

Lincoln, Neb. : University of Nebraska Press, c1998.

Description

Henry Ossian Flipper (21 March 1856 - 3 May 1940) was an American soldier, former slave, and the first African American to graduate from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1877, earning a commission as a 2nd Lieutenant in the US Army.

Call number

Autobiographies / Flipper

Tags

Autobiographies, African american military cadets, United States Military Academy

Language

English

Subjects

African American military cadets West Point Biography
Military cadets United States Biography

ISBN

9780803268906

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