On June 15, 1877, Henry Ossian Flipper becomes the first African American to graduate from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.
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"I am sure that, after reading my Brief through, you will understand and appreciate the struggle I made to rise above the station to which I was born, how I won my way through West Point and how I made as honorable a record in the Army as any officer in it, in spite of the isolation, lack of social association, ostracism and what not to which I was subjected by the great majority of my brother officers." Excerpt in letter from Lt. Henry O. Flipper to Congress.
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Cadet Henry O. Flipper in his West Point cadet uniform. By US GOVT, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org