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His generous service to the Ordnance Corps led to him being inducted into the Ordnance Corps Hall of Fame. JANUARY 28, 2018, BY CONTRIBUTED BY: TIANA SMITH Wilson was born on February 4, 1944, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. His father worked in a steel mill and his mother worked part-time at a movie theater. Wilson is the second […]

Johnnie Wilson, Retired Four-star U.S. Army General

Colin Powell was a retired four-star United States Army General who was the first African American to serve as National Security Advisor, Chairman of the Joints Chief of Staff, and Secretary of State. MARCH 4, 2007, BY CONTRIBUTED BY: GERRY BUTLER Colin Powell was born on April 5, 1937, in the Bronx, New York to Jamaican immigrant parents. He attended public schools in […]

Four-star General Colin Powell

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Joycelyn Elders, the former United States Surgeon General was born Minnie Lee Jones in Schaal, Arkansas on August 13, 1933, to Curtis and Hailer Jones; she added the name Joycelyn when she was in college. JANUARY 14, 2008 BY CONTRIBUTED BY: ANGELA HORNSBY-GUTTING As the eldest of eight children of sharecroppers, Joycelyn Elders experienced extreme poverty in segregated, rural Arkansas. […]

First Woman/First Black Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders

On November 29, 2004, the Montgomery Police Department began a new era when Montgomery’s Mayor Bobby Bright appointed a new police chief—Art Baylor. Chief Baylor came to this position with the needed experience to lead the department. Baylor has served in the Montgomery Police Department as an officer, investigator, sergeant, lieutenant, captain and major. Leaving […]

Art Baylor, Montgomery Alabama First Black Police Chief

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Navy Admiral Cecil Haney was born into a struggling family in “humble surroundings” in Washington, D.C., on December 1, 1955. SEPTEMBER 17, 2017, BY CONTRIBUTED BY: ROBERT FIKES Admiral Cecil D. Haney, November 15, 2013 Public domain image After graduating from the city’s Eastern High School, he left for Annapolis, Maryland, where he was a distinguished midshipman at the United […]

Four-Star Admiral Cecil D. Haney (1955- )

Joseph Paul Reason was the first African American to attain the rank of four-star admiral in the United States Navy. Reason was born March 22, 1941, in Washington, D.C., the son of Howard University librarian and French language professor Dr. Joseph Henry Reason, and schoolteacher Bernice Reason (née Chism). As a teenager at McKinley Technology High School, he showed interest […]

Four-Star Admiral Joseph Paul Reason, Sr.