The Navy as a Path to Freedom: The Impact of African Americans (Part I)
During the American Revolutionary War, the Navy allowed enslaved and free African Americans to fight. Unlike the Continental Army, where only free persons were allowed to join (this rule changed eventually). Many blacks were experienced Sailors, they became an asset...
The Story of Ensign Jesse L. Brown
Jesse Leroy Brown was born in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, into a sharecropper family. He was a school athlete who excelled at math and dreamed of being a pilot from the time he was a young boy. When he left Mississippi to attend Ohio State University in 1944, his high...