By Victor Trammell Photo credits: U.S. Army Center of Military History Charles Young (pictured) was born into slavery in Kentucky in 1864 and grew up in Ripley, Ohio, where he excelled in academics, music, and foreign languages. His father, a Union Army veteran, urged him to enroll at West Point, where he became the academy's […]

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