The President and First Lady on Veterans Day

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The President and First Lady spent part of Veterans Day in San Diego, aboard the USS Carl Vinson, at the Carrier Classic.

















The tip off of an NCAA Men’s Basketball game between the University of North Carolina and Michigan State University on board the USS Carl Vinson at North Island Naval Station in San Diego, Calif., Nov. 11.
----Official White House Photo by Lawrence Jackson

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President Obama on Veterans Day

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Happy Veterans Day

Happy Veteran's Day!!!

African-Americans have fought with pride, courage and dignity in every conflict this country has had, beginning with Revolutionary War.


Crispus Attucks - first person killed in the Revolutionary War.




Buffalo Soldiers


54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry

Immortalized in the movie Glory



1st Louisana Native Guard, 1861



Troops in the Spanish-American War, 1898



9th Calvary in the Phillippine-American War, circa 1900





World War One Troops







World War Two







The Tuskegee Airmen








Tuskegee_Airmen_by_Edward_Clay_Wright

Korean War



the first time Black soldiers were in an integrated Army



Vietnam



Gulf Wars



Black Women in the Armed Forces

Article about Black women in the Military


Cathy Williams-female Buffalo Soldier










POW Shoshana Johnson


Benjamin O. Davis, Sr. - the first Black General in the Army.




Benjamin O. Davis, Jr. -the first Black General in the Air Force and the commander of the Tuskegee Airmen.




Samuel L. Gravely, Jr. - the first Black Admiral in the Navy.



Frank E. Petersen -He was the first African-American Marine Corps aviator and the first African-American Marine Corps General.




Colin Powell - first Black Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.



ACES Museum Honoring Black and Minority Veterans of WWII and Their Families

The History Place: African-Americans in WWII