This book is the story of an African American mans strange Love, and passion for anything nautically related. Book I of the Nautical Negro was written 10 years

The 1856 Nautical Magazine includes reports on proposals for canals at Suez and Panama and for a telegraph to India.

On June 1, 1942, the United States Marine Corps broke a 144-year tradition and enlisted the first black Marines. Three months later, more than 400 black volunte