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Robert Schneller talked about his book Breaking the Color Barrier: The U.S. Naval Academy’s First Black Midshipmen and the Struggle for Racial Equality, published by New York University Pre…

The Veterans History Project of the Library of Congress honored Lt. Commander Wes Brown (Ret.), who in 1949 became the first black to graduate from the U.S. Naval Academy. During this event …

Lieutenant Commander Wendell Brown (Ret.), the first African-American to graduate from the U.S. Naval Academy, discussed the problems that blacks faced. He responded to questions from the mi…