BY WALTER OPINDE Samuel Gravely Jr. was the U.S. Navy's first African-American admiral and the first black to serve as a fleet commander. He was the first black American in the U.S. Navy to provide services aboard a fighting ship as an officer, the first fleet commander, the first to command a Navy ship, and the first […]
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