- Collection:
- Thomas County Image Gallery
- Title:
- Lieutenant Henry Flipper, Thomasville, Georgia
- Date of Original:
- 1856/1940
- Subject:
- United States Army--Officers
African American soldiers
Military uniforms - People:
- Flipper, Henry Ossian, 1856-1940
- Location:
- United States, Georgia, Thomas County, Thomasville, 30.83658, -83.97878
- Medium:
- photographs
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- A black and white photograph of Henry Ossian Flipper. Henry O. Flipper was born into slavery in Thomasville, Georgia in 1856. He was the first African American to graduate from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York. After his graduation and commission as a second lieutenant in the U.S. Army, he was wrongfully court-martialed and dishonorably discharged. His good name and honor were posthumously restored in 1976.
- Metadata URL:
- http://www.thomasvillehistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Lieutenant-Henry-Flipper-West-Point-Graduation1.jpg
- Digital Object URL:
- http://www.thomasvillehistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Lieutenant-Henry-Flipper-West-Point-Graduation1.jpg
- Holding Institution:
- Thomasville History Center
- Rights:
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