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Henry Ossian Flipper (1856-1940)

Henry Ossian Flipper was a 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 United States Army. He fought racial inequality and injustice at the Academy and throughout his Army career.
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