TY  - BOOK
AU  - Robinson,Charles M.
TI  - The fall of a black army officer: racism and the myth of Henry O. Flipper 
SN  - 9780806135212 (hbk. : alk. paper)
AV  - KF7642.F58 R633 2008
U1  - 355.1/334B 22
PY  - 2008///
CY  - Norman, Ok
PB  - University of Oklahoma Press
KW  - Flipper, Henry Ossian,
KW  - Trials (Military offenses)
KW  - Texas
KW  - Fort Davis
KW  - Courts-martial and courts of inquiry
KW  - United States
KW  - fast
KW  - Trials
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-189) and index; Race and the army -- The black cadet -- Links in a chain -- The court-martial begins -- Shafter on the defensive -- A question of persecution and a "Mexican theory" -- The government rests -- Lucy Smith testifies -- Testimonials to a good name -- The question : can an officer be black? -- The end of a career -- After the army
N2  - Lieutenant Henry O. Flipper was a former slave who rose to become the first African American graduate of West Point. While serving as commissary officer at Fort Davis, Texas, in 1881, he was charged with embezzlement and conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman. A court-martial board acquitted Flipper of the embezzlement charge but convicted him of conduct unbecoming. He was then dismissed from the service of the United States. The Flipper case became known as something of an American Dreyfus Affiar, emblematic of racism in the frontier army. Flipper struggled to clear his name, and many assumed that he had been railroaded because he was black
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