History - The Golden Thirteen
THE GOLDEN THIRTEEN - March, 1944 (First black Navy officers)
During their officer candidate training, they compiled a class average of 3.89, a record that has yet to be broken.
TOP ROW: John Walter Reagan, Jesse Walter Arbor, Dalton Louis Baugh,Frank Ellis Sublett MIDDLE ROW: Graham Edward Martin, Charles Byrd Lear, Phillip George Barnes, Reginald E. Goodwin BOTTOM ROW: JamesEdward Hair, Samuel Edward Barnes, George Clinton Cooper, William Sylvester White, Dennis Denmark Nelson. (All are now deceased)