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The biography of Rear Admiral Lawrence Cleveland Chambers is an
amazing story of one of America's historic naval men who overcame
the prejudices of the segregated American South, who excelled and
integrated the prestigious U.S. Naval Acadmy, only to become the
first African American to command a navy carrier squadron, the
first to command an aircraft carrier, the first to serve as naval
aviator to attain the rank of Rear Admiral, and the first to
command a naval carrier group. It is a deeply personal and
revealing account of a remarkable journey of man whose career
paralleled the geopolitical conflict of the Cold War between the
United States and the communist bloc nations of China and the
Soviet Union, then served as the Captain of the USS Midway (CV-41)
during the evacuation of Saigon during Operation Frequent Wind, and
how the challenges of his youth and his compelling life story
enabled him to make the right leadership decisions for all of the
right reasons.
From its origination, Arlington National Cemetery's history has
been compellingly intertwined with that of African Americans. This
book explains how the grounds of Arlington House, formerly the home
of Robert E. Lee and a plantation of the enslaved, became a
military camp for Federal troops, a freedmen's village and farm,
and America's most important burial ground. During the Civil War,
the property served as a pauper's cemetery for men too poor to be
returned to their families, and some of the very first war dead to
be buried there include over 1,500 men who served in the United
States Colored Troops. More than 3,800 former slaves are interred
in section 27, the property's original cemetery.
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