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Paperback The Fall of a Black Army Officer: Racism and the Myth of Henry O. Flipper Book

ISBN: 0806190175

ISBN13: 9780806190174

The Fall of a Black Army Officer: Racism and the Myth of Henry O. Flipper

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Lieutenant Henry O. Flipper was a former slave who rose to become the first African American graduate of West Point. While serving as commissary officer at Fort Davis, Texas, in 1881, he was charged with embezzlement and conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman. A court-martial board acquitted Flipper of the embezzlement charge but convicted him of conduct unbecoming. He was then dismissed from the service of the United States. The Flipper case...

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