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COL. CHARLES YOUNG - WEST POINT GRADUATE, MILITARY ATTACHE TO HAITI, LIBERIA, 1943
1943 cartoon about the life of Colonel Charles Young, by Charles Alston. Charles Young was the third African American graduate of West Point, the first black U.S. National Park Service superintendent, the first African American military attaché, and the highest ranking black officer in the United States Army until his death in 1922.

Photo by: Office for Emergency Management. Office of War Information. Domestic Operations Branch. News Bureau. |  VIRIN: 140213-D-YF393-001.JPG