Today is Thursday, June 15, the 166th day of 2006 with 199 to follow. Henry Ossian Flipper (21 March 1856 – 3 May 1940) was an American soldier and though born into slavery in the American South ...

Crosby Kemper III interviews Henry Ossian Flipper. Kansas City Public Library Director Crosby Kemper III interviews Henry Ossian Flipper, the first African-American West Point graduate, as ...

Would you take the chance? I think that most would not, and if you did you would be one of the most courageous people around. Such is the case with Henry Ossian Flipper, the first African American to ...

Would you take the chance? I think that most would not, and if you did, you would be one of the most courageous people around. Such is the case with Henry Ossian Flipper, the first African American to ...

On June 15, 1877, Henry Ossian Flipper, born a slave in Thomasville, Ga., became the first Black cadet to graduate from West Point.

The birthday of the U.S. Army, June 14, marks the 140th anniversary of another event of special note. In 1877, Henry Ossian Flipper became the first African-American graduate of the ...

Autobiography of Lieut. HENRY OSSIAN FLIPPER, firstgraduate of color form the United States MilitaryAcademy. New-York: HOMER LEE & CO. 1878. Share full article Jan. 6, 1879 The New York Times Archives ...

In 1921, Henry O. Flipper was appointed an assistant secretary of the Department of the Interior. He died in Atlanta in 1940 at the age of 84. Originally Published: February 16, 1991 at 1:00 AM CST ...

WEST POINT, N.Y. (Feb. 13, 2013) -- West Point and the Corps of Cadets conducted the 2013 Henry Ossian Flipper Dinner Feb. 7 at the Cadet Mess Hall where the Henry O. Flipper Award was presented ...