Tag: African American military pioneers
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Discover how General Roscoe Robinson Jr. rose from St. Louis to become the U.S. Army’s first Black four-star general and West Point’s highest-ranking Black graduate despite military segregation.
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- Marilyn Bevans Won Her First Marathon in 1975 and Blazed a Path as the First African American Woman to Medal at Boston
- Roscoe Robinson Jr. Rises from Segregated Ranks to Become U.S. Army’s First Black Four-Star General and West Point’s Highest-Ranking Black Graduate
- Judge Cynthia J. Ayers, First Black Woman Elected to Marion County Superior Court, Passes Away at 77
- Alvin Vincent Blount Jr. Led Battlefield Surgery in Korea as the First Black Chief Surgeon in a MASH Unit
- Ebony Twilley Martin Named Greenpeace’s First Black Executive Director After Decades of Environmental Exclusion
