Brief description:
From the book cover:
LaVice Hendricks had been looking for a dynamic story about a black American -- a story With a reasonable amount of facts -- but could use a stroke of Fiction. He found it in Henry Flipper. After completing l7 stage plays and over 20 years of theatre, The Black Torch of West Point Was presented in Thomasville, Georgia, in 1978, as a musical stage production. Hendricks portrayed Henry Flipper. Flipper was the first man of color to graduate from West Point Military Academy in 1877.
Twenty-three years later, LaVice Hendricks decided to write the book. A passionate and emotion driven story about a boy who came out of slavery to achieve What many thought unachievable by a former slave...Henry Flipper led an adventurous life that
spanned from the Civil War, during the days of racial bigotry, to the Depression Years.
This love story will keep your heart beating with excitement with each page, yet bringing tears to your eyes to a fallen and almost unknown black hero.
LaVice Hendricks had been looking for a dynamic story about a black American -- a story With a reasonable amount of facts -- but could use a stroke of Fiction. He found it in Henry Flipper. After completing l7 stage plays and over 20 years of theatre, The Black Torch of West Point Was presented in Thomasville, Georgia, in 1978, as a musical stage production. Hendricks portrayed Henry Flipper. Flipper was the first man of color to graduate from West Point Military Academy in 1877.
Twenty-three years later, LaVice Hendricks decided to write the book. A passionate and emotion driven story about a boy who came out of slavery to achieve What many thought unachievable by a former slave...Henry Flipper led an adventurous life that
spanned from the Civil War, during the days of racial bigotry, to the Depression Years.
This love story will keep your heart beating with excitement with each page, yet bringing tears to your eyes to a fallen and almost unknown black hero.
Publication
LaVice & Company (2001), 234 pages