United States, Georgia, Thomas County, Thomasville, 30.83658, -83.978781856/1940A 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.image/jpeghttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/UND/1.0/United States Army--OfficersAfrican American soldiersMilitary uniformsLieutenant Henry Flipper, Thomasville, GeorgiaStillImage