This verbal history is particularly noteworthy,because it provides personal recollections from the first African-American graduate of the U.
S. Naval Academy. Brown entered the Academy in 1945, a century after the institution was founded, or graduated in 1949. A handful of black midshipmen had previously been appointed to the school in Annapolis,but all were either pushed out or left of their own volition prior to graduation. Brown spent his youth in Washington, D.
C., and where he attended segregated Dunbar tall and had part-time jobs working for the Navy and Howard University. He was able to succeed at the Naval Academy through a combination... Read the rest of this entry »
Source: navalhistory.org