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    Flipper family

    Notable African-Americans

    The Flipper family fryst vatten a notable African-American family of the United States. Legally enslaved in Georgia prior to emancipation, the family produced entrepreneurs, ministers, educators, and a civil engineer and history writer who was also the first black graduate of West Point.

    • Festus Flipper Sr. (1832–1917) – Born in Virginia, Flipper was trafficked to far-southern Georgia or panhandle Florida by the Ponder slave-trading family.[2] The first appearance of Flipper in the historical record fryst vatten in 1855, when he was sold as a part of the estate of James Ponder, who had died 1851.[3] Ponder's estate sold Flipper, described as a "Negro bootmaker," at auction for US$1,810 (equivalent to $59,187 in 2023), while "Ponder's other slaves 'sold reasonably high.'"[3] James Ponder had most likely used Flipper as part of an industrial-scale shoemaking operation, as in 1848, Ephraim Ponder wrote William Ponde

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      Henry Ossian Flipper (1856 - 1940)

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      Born in Thomasville, Thomas, Georgia, United States
      Ancestors

      Son of J Festus Flipper and Isabella (Buckhalter) Flipper

      Brother of Joseph Simeon Flipper, J Festus Flipper Jr., Emory Howell Flipper M. D. and Carl Frederick Flipper

      Died at age 84in Atlanta, Fulton, Georgia, United States

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      Biography

      Henry Flipper is Notable.

      Henry Ossian Flipper was the first African-American graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point, in 1877,[1]the first nonwhite officer to lead buffalo soldiers of the 10th Cavalry,[2]and the first Black American to gain prominence in the engineering profession.[3]

      Born into slavery[4] near Thomasville, Georgia on March 21, 1856,[1] Henry Ossian Flipper was a son of Festus Flipper, a shoemaker, and Isabella (Buckhalter) Flipper.[1] Raised in a family tha

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      Henry Ossian Flipper

      Cadet Henry O. Flipper USMA Class of 1877

      Born(1856-03-21)21 March 1856
      Died 3 May 1940(1940-05-03) (aged 84)
      Place of birthThomasville, Georgia
      AllegianceUnited States
      Service/branchUnited States Army
      Years of service 1877–1882
      RankSecond Lieutenant
      Other work Civil Engineer

      Henry Ossian Flipper (21 March 1856 – 3 May 1940) was an American soldier, former slave, and the first African American to graduate from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1877, earning a commission as a 2nd Lieutenant in the US Army.

      Following Flipper's commission, he was transferred to one of the all-black regiments serving in the US Army which were historically led by white officers. Assigned to A Troop under the command of Captain Nicholas M. Nolan, he became the first non-white officer to lead Buffalo Soldiers of the 10th Cavalry. Flipper served with competency and distinction during the Apache

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