{"product_id":"9780806135212-the-fall-of-a-black-army-officer-racism-and-the-myth-of-henry-o-flipper","title":"The Fall of a Black Army Officer","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eRacism and the Myth of Henry O. Flipper\u003cbr\u003eLieutenant Henry O. Flipper was a former slave who rose to become the first African American graduate of West Point. While serving as commissary officer at Fort Davis, Texas, in 1881, he was charged with embezzlement and conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman. A court-martial board acquitted Flipper of the embezzlement charge but convicted him of conduct unbecoming. He was then dismissed from the service of the United States. The Flipper case became known as something of an American Dreyfus Affair, emblematic of racism in the frontier army. Because of Flipper's efforts to clear his name, many assumed that he had been railroaded because he was black.\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Fall of a Black Army Officer,\u003c\/i\u003e Charles M. Robinson III challenges that assumption. In this complete revision of his earlier work, \u003ci\u003eThe Court-Martial of Lieutenant Henry Flipper,\u003c\/i\u003e Robinson finds that Flipper was the author of his own problems.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe taint of racism on the Flipper affair became so widely accepted that in 1999 President Bill Clinton issued a posthumous pardon for Flipper. \u003ci\u003eThe Fall of a Black Army Officer\u003c\/i\u003e boldly moves the arguments regarding racism--in both Lt. Flipper's case and the frontier army in general--beyond political correctness. Solidly grounded in archival research, it is a thorough and provocative reassessment of the Flipper affair, at last revealing the truth.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55209859940726,"sku":"9780806135212","price":28.92,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_29659611.jpg?v=1738234118","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780806135212-the-fall-of-a-black-army-officer-racism-and-the-myth-of-henry-o-flipper","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}