Henry Ossian Flipper (21 March 1856 - 3 May 1940) was an American soldier, former slave, and the first African American to graduate from the United States Milit

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Published in 1878, this is the autobiography of Lt. Henry Ossian Flipper, the first black man to graduate from West Point Military Academy.

"The following pages were written by request. They claim to give an accurate and impartial narrative of my four years' life while a cadet at West Point, as well