When Birckhead started her military career at Hampton University ... Linda Singh — who was the first woman and African American to command the Maryland National Guard. She understands how ...

To date, 96 African-American ... in shaping the history of our military. During WWII, American women played a crucial role as codebreakers, working at places like the Pentagon and the Navy ...

When we consider African-American achievement in the military names we think of General Benjamin O. Davis, the Tuskegee Airmen, and General Colin Powell. For decades there have been efforts to ...

detailing the extraordinary military career of the troop led by the highest-ranking African-American woman in the army. The sixth-grade students at the academy have seen the 2024 Netflix film “T ...

They had women civilians, intelligence analysts, but not military," Harris said ... A few years later Admiral Michelle Howard, an African American female, became the first woman to have four ...

But, in Friday's change of command ceremony, Days became the first Black woman to take command of ... but also to show ladies, not just African American young ladies, that opportunities await." ...

Read More: African American Contributions in the Military Amid rising tensions between ... Army paved the way for countless minority men and women -- including his son, Benjamin O.

She is also recognized as the only known female Buffalo Soldier, who were African American troops in the U.S. Army who served on the American frontier in the 19th century. Membership to the National ...

Ann became the first African American woman to serve on a Union military vessel and was one of the first women ever to openly serve as a nurse in the U.S. Navy. She was one of five African ...

When applying to colleges, Maj. Gen. Janeen Birckhead and her mother exhausted every option possible to cover her tuition. For Birckhead, a career in the military was never something that crossed her ...