Minute of History: Henry Flipper
Channel: Defense Commissary Agency
Date: 2016-01-29

Henry Flipper, the first African-American graduate of the U.S. Military Academy, was unjustly court-martialed while assigned as Quartermaster and Assistant Commissary of Subsistence at Fort Davis, Texas. Thanks to his natural abilities he succeeded in multiple business ventures and government appointments, regained his good name and reputation, and was exonerated of all charges.