Frederick Clinton Branch is recognized as the first African American officer of the United States Marine Corps. Branch was born on May 31, 1922, in Hamlet, North Carolina. He was the fourth son of an African Methodist Episcopal Zion minister. Branch graduated from high school in Mamaroneck, New York. He later enrolled at Johnson C. […]
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