The Fall of a Black Army Officer Racism and the Myth of Henry O. Flipper |
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| Author:
| Robinson, Charles M.
Robinson, Charles M. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8061-3521-2 |
| Publication Date: | Oct 2008 |
| Publisher: | University of Oklahoma Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $29.95 |
Book Description:
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Lieutenant Henry O. Flipper was a former slave who became the first African American graduate of West Point. While serving as commissary officer at Fort Davis, Texas, in 1881, he was charged with embezzlement and conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman. A court-martial board acquitted him of the embezzlement charge but convicted him of conduct unbecoming. He was then dismissed from the service of the United States. Charles M. Robinson III challenges the assumption that...
More DescriptionLieutenant Henry O. Flipper was a former slave who became the first African American graduate of West Point. While serving as commissary officer at Fort Davis, Texas, in 1881, he was charged with embezzlement and conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman. A court-martial board acquitted him of the embezzlement charge but convicted him of conduct unbecoming. He was then dismissed from the service of the United States. Charles M. Robinson III challenges the assumption that Flipper was railroaded because he was black and in this complete revision of his earlier work, The Court-Martial of Lieutenant Henry Flipper, Robinson finds that Flipper was the author of his own problems.