Black History Month: The Buffalo Soldier Who Went to West Point
Black History Month: The Buffalo Soldier Who Went to West Point by Alice Adams Henry Ossian Flipper began life as a slave, March 21, 1856, in Thomasville, Georgia, the eldest of six boys. His parents, Festus and Isabelle Flipper, were owned by Ephraim G. Ponder, a wealthy plantation owner, who encouraged his slaves to excel in Read more