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Concerned Parents of Color: Record African-American Class at West Point



		Concerned Parents of Color: Record African-American Class at West Point Posted by rbutler on Jul 09, 2010 - 01:21 AM An article in the Journal of Blacks in Higher Education (JBHE) indicates that the 2010 freshman class at West Point Military Academy (graduating in 2014) contains the largest number ever of African-American cadets at 126. Click this link to view the JBHE article This is a marked improvement of the early history of this military training institution as it pertains to African-American cadets (click links below). Online book: The Colored Cadet at West Point. This is an autobiography by Henry Ossian Flipper, the first Negro cadet to graduate from West Point. It details the isolation he endured at the institution. Summary of Flipper's career by Col. Charles D. Allen, commemorating the June 14, 2010 235th anniversary of the U.S. Army. Wikipedia biography of Henry Ossian Flipper Oklahoma Historical Society biography on Henry Ossian Flipper. Wikipedia biography of Cadet Johnson Chestnut Whittaker. In 1880, he was found tied and beaten in his bed at West Point. After an inquiry, he was expelled for fabricating the incident, thereby losing his commission. In 1995, President Bill Clinton awarded the commission to Whittaker's heirs. What happened to Cadet Whittaker? Article from American Heritage.com

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