Who was the first black US Navy Chief Petty Officer?
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In 1917, John Henry (''Dick'') Turpin became the first African-American chief petty officer, the Navy's highest enlisted rank at the time. Turpin enlisted in 1896 and survived the sinking of the battleship USS Maine in Havana harbor in February 1898. A chief gunner's mate, he was one of the blacks allowed to stay in 1919 and retired in 1925.
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U.S. Navy, Judge Advocate General
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THE PLAIN STEEL marker on Sleepy Hole Road in Suffolk pings in the winter wind. It says that James Bowser was the only Negro from Nansemond County to fight in the American Revolution. \n\nread more about it on the website...\n\nit is a college with significant ties to the black community, so there is no suprise in a building being named after him.
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Thurgood Marshall\n\nI wanted to edit, since i saw someone gave you misinformation.  Here is a link to prove:
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William Henry Harrison (February 9, 1773 – April 4, 1841) was an American military leader, politician, and the ninth President of the United States
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In 1890, football was widely popular among American colleges, including the Naval Academy at Annapolis. Yet only two West Point cadets had ever played: Cadet Leonard M. Prince, and Cadet Dennis Mahan Michie '92, the high-spirited son of Peter Smith Michie (Class of 1863), Professor of Natural Philosophy and head of the Academic Board. \nDennis Michie loved football, and he had an undeniable influence over his formidable father. So it was young Michie who launched Army's football career, when he persuaded his father to allow West Point to accept a challenge from the Naval Academy to a game of football.\n\nThe first game went predictably. Navy had been playing organized football for years; West Point's team, with young Michie as the coach and trainer, had been allowed to practice only on a few rainy Saturdays when the weekly parade was called off. Michie's coaching seems to have been fairly informal. When navy's team came out on the field and began warm-up drills and exercises, the cadets looked on in shock.\n\nAt the line of scrimmage, Navy's quarterback began to bark out commands in nautical terms. "Tack ship" indicated a run to the right, "Wear ship" a run to the left. The Army quarterback, Kirby Walker, caught on fast, and began shouting out his signals in Army terms - "In battery, heave!"\n\n \n \n  \n\nArmy's First Clash with Navy \n \n   \n\nSince at this time the basic tactic in football was the flying wedge, allowing for none of the finesse of the modern game, the game was all brute force - war by another means. Army's inexperience accentuated the havoc. Kirby Walker was knocked out four times, and was finally taken off unconscious to the hospital, but the game went on. A New York Times reported noted, "There is not much football in this struggle but the fighting is immense." Navy exploited its sophistication, at one point running a fake punt, which caught Army so off guard the play went for a touchdown. The referees shrugged off Army's indignant protests that a man who professed he was about to punt was honor bound to kick away. Navy won the game 24-0. \n\nThe defeat spurred a robust effort at fielding a better team. Every regiment in the Army contributed money for uniforms and a part-time coach, as well as sending the team down to Annapolis for a rematch. In 1891 West Point played six home games, winning four, ad one away game - at Annapolis, where the cadets recorded their final victory over Navy 32-16.\n\nEven before he graduated, Dennis Mahan Michie had founded one of the great American sports rivalries; as a player he scored in Army's first victory. Before him lay a future shining with promise. But he was cut down almost before he could start. He died in the Spanish-American War, at the Battle of San Juan Hill. In the tradition of naming sports facilities for Academy graduates who died in action, Michie Stadium is named for him.
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It was Franklin D. Roosevelt.  I remember this, because I did a report on him in 6th grade.  I never heard about the pilot that dropped a kid on Japan.
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The Navy does not have it within Basic Training, but we do have another program during "A" school that can lead to an honor promotion.\n\nIts called AAP, Accelerated Advancement Program.  If a student does exceptionally well, performs above and beyond what is expected of them, and passes a board of experienced sailors, he or she can reach their first command as an (E4) Third Class Petty Officer.\n\nSo, yes, the Navy has something close to that.
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The answer is Jackie Robinson.  In 1947, he became the first African-American player in Major League Baseball.  He was honored as Rookie of the YEar (then only awarded to one player).  Two years later, he was given the National League MVP for a stellar season.\n\nJackie Robinson was a pioneer in the MLB and his memory is still kept alive becuase is his number is retired league-wide.
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If by chief, you mean commander-in-chief, then that would be George dubbya Bush. Thank you
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1855\nhttp://www.blackinventor.com/pages/josephdickinson.html
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Robert Edward Lee (January 19, 1807 – October 12, 1870) was a career army officer and the most successful general of the Confederate forces during the American Civil War. He eventually commanded all Confederate armies as general-in-chief. Like Hannibal earlier and Rommel later, his victories against superior forces in an ultimately losing cause won him enduring fame. After the war, he urged sectional reconciliation, and spent his final years as a devoted college president. Lee remains an iconic figure of the Confederacy in the Southern states to this day.
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Lee Petty. He is one of the most famous Daytona 500 winners.
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the first African\nAmerican student to attend The University of Alabama
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In 1823, Alexander Lucius Twilight became the first African-American man to receive a B.A.  He was graduated from Middlebury College in Vermont.\n\nIn 1862, Mary Jane Patterson became the first African-American woman to receive a B.A.; she studied at Oberlin College in Ohio.
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"Joseph Ranger, a free man of color who enlisted in Virginia's navy in 1776, served on four ships during the American Revolution. He, like many other African Americans, devoted his life to the United States, only to be thrust into the most dangerous situations by the same organization he was so readily willing to defend. Most of the blacks who served in the Revolutionary navy were, for the most part, orderlies or ordinary seamen. A few fortunate African Americans were able to work their way up to pilots, but this was extremely rare."\n\nhttp://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1157/is_n1_v61/ai_20787857