With the demands and shifting environment of WWII, opportunities and recognition of African Americans in the Navy marked the twentieth century as an era of “firsts” in favor of racial equality. During the attack at Pearl Harbor (1941), a brave Sailor named...
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...
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...
Article by Naval History and Heritage Command To honor African American History Month, the following is a collection of graphics depicting some of the black officers and enlisted personnel who have stood out among the U.S. Navy’s best and brightest, gaining...
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