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Henry Ossian Flipper
(March 21, 1856 – April 26, 1940) an American soldier, engineer, former slave and in 1877, the first African American to graduate from the United States Military Academy at West Point, earning a commission as a second lieutenant in the United States Army.
Ossian Sweet
(/ˈɒʃən/ OSH-ən; October 30, 1895 – March 20, 1960) an African-American physician in Detroit, Michigan.
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