Henry Flipper
Come and Take It
English - July 26, 2015 05:00 - 24 minutes - 26.6 MB - ★★★★★ - 144 ratingsSociety & Culture History texas texas history history alamo sam houston santa anna jim bowie san jacinto culture history podcast Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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A freed slave who became the first black American to graduate from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, Henry Flipper fought Apaches in West Texas and later settled in El Paso. He was an engineer, interpreter, translator, historian, inventor, newspaper editor, and high ranking government official at a time when African-Americans still faced extreme discrimination.