Friday, June 20, 2008

Jordan's Journal 6/15/08 Dr. William Hastie

Dear A'NYA;

1877-Henry O. Flipper becomes the first black to graduate from the U.S. military Academy in West point, New York.

William Henry Hastie (1904-1976) was born in Knoxville, Tennesse.

Dr. William Hastie was one of the bright young African- Americans who achieved high visability as a race relations advisors to the Roosevelt administration.

On May 7, 1946, Hastie was inauggurated as the first African-American governor of the Virgin Islands.


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