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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)

 

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The African American Experience in Vietnam: Brothers in Arms (African American History Series)
By James E. Westheider

In this book James Westheider explores the social and professional paradoxes facing African-American soldiers in Vietnam. Service in the military started as a demonstration of the merits of integration as blacks competed with whites on a near equal basis for the first time.


 The Slaves' War: The Civil War in the Words of Former Slaves
By Andrew Ward

The first narrative history of the Civil War told by the very people it freed.





 

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