Black Cadet in a White Bastion: Charles Young at West Point

by Brian G. Shellum

Book Overview

Born in slavery, Charles Young (1864-1922) was the third black graduate of West Point, the first black U.S. military attach , and the highest-ranking black officer in the Regular Army until his death. Unlike the two black graduates before him, Young went on to a long military career, eventually achieving the rank of colonel. After Young, racial intolerance closed the door to blacks at the academy, and forty-seven years passed before another African...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803293151
• ISBN13: 9780803293151
• Release Date: April 2006
• Publisher: Bison Books
• Length: 258 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.6" x 8.5"