Black Cadet in a White Bastion: Charles Young at West Point

Format: Paperback Language: English ISBN: 0803293151 ISBN13: 9780803293151 Release Date: April 2006 Publisher: Bison Books Length: 258 Pages Weight: 0.70 lbs. Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.6" x 8.5" Born in slavery, Charles Young (1864-1922) was the third black graduate of West Point, the first black U.S. military attach , and the highest-ranking black officer in the Regular Army until his death. Unlike the two black graduates before him, Young went on to a long military career, eventually achieving the rank of colonel. After Young, racial intolerance closed the door to blacks at the academy, and forty-seven years passed before another African American graduated from West Point. Brian G. Shellum's biography of Young's years at West Point chronicles the enormous challenges that Young faced and provides a valuable window into life at West Point in the 1880s. Academic difficulties, hazing, and social ostracism dogged him throughout his academy years. He succeeded through a co