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The Fall of a Black Army Officer: Racism and the Myth of Henry O. Flipper

The Fall of a Black Army Officer: Racism and the Myth of Henry O. Flipper

Robinson, Charles M.

Hardcover

Military Biographies20th Century United States HistoryArmed Forces

ISBN10: 0806135212
ISBN13: 9780806135212
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: Oct 3 2008
Pages: 216
Weight: 0.85
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.60 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Lieutenant Henry O. Flipper was a former slave who rose to become the first African American graduate of West Point. While serving as commissary officer at Fort Davis, Texas, in 1881, he was charged with embezzlement and conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman. A court-martial board acquitted Flipper of the embezzlement charge but convicted him of conduct unbecoming. He was then dismissed from the service of the United States. The Flipper case became known as something of an American Dreyfus Affair, emblematic of racism in the frontier army. Because of Flipper's efforts to clear his name, many assumed that he had been railroaded because he was black.

In The Fall of a Black Army Officer, Charles M. Robinson III challenges that assumption. In this complete revision of his earlier work, The Court-Martial of Lieutenant Henry Flipper, Robinson finds that Flipper was the author of his own problems.

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