Johnson Chesnut Whittaker was one of the first black men to win an appointment to the United States Military Academy at Westpoint. While attending the academy, he was brutally assaulted and then expelled after being falsely accused and convicted of faking the incident. Over sixty years after his death, his name was formally cleared when […]
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