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After graduating from high school, Anna Mac attended Kentucky State College (now KSU). While at Kentucky State, Clarke was a very active student, participating in sports, Delta Sigma Theta sorority, and the school's newspaper, The Kentucky Thorobred. Clarke graduated from Kentucky State College in 1941, earning a bachelor's degree in both ...
The following is a partial list of generals or naval officers (at or above the rank of commodore) either born in Kentucky or living in Kentucky when they joined the army or navy (or in a few cases, men who were buried in Kentucky following the war, although they did not directly serve in Kentucky units).
The Pursuit of Excellence: Kentucky State University, 1886–2020 (2021) online; Hardin, John A. "Green Pinckney Russell of Kentucky Normal and Industrial Institute for Colored Persons." Journal of Black Studies 25.5 (1995): 610–621. excerpt, now renamed as Kentucky State University at Frankfort
Charles Young (March 12, 1864 – January 8, 1922) was an American soldier. He was the third African American graduate of the United States Military Academy, the first Black U.S. national park superintendent, first Black military attaché, first Black man to achieve the rank of colonel in the United States Army, and highest-ranking Black officer in the Regular Army until his death in 1922.
Unlike the army, the U.S. Navy had never prohibited black men from serving, though regulations in place since 1840 had required them to be limited to not more than 5% of all enlisted sailors. Thus at the start of the war, the Union Navy differed from the Army in that it allowed black men to enlist and was racially integrated. [34]
The 5th United States Colored Cavalry was a regiment of the United States Army organized as one of the units of the United States Colored Troops during the American Civil War. The 5th USCC was one of the more notable black fighting units. It was officially organized in Kentucky in October 1864, after its first
The 503rd Infantry Regiment, formerly the 503rd Parachute Infantry Regiment (503rd PIR) and the 503rd Airborne Infantry Regiment (503rd AIR), is an airborne infantry regiment of the United States Army. The regiment served as an independent regiment in the Pacific War during World War II; at Fort Campbell, Kentucky; in Okinawa, Japan; and in ...
Luska Joseph Twyman was born on May 19, 1913, in Hiseville, Kentucky. [4] Twyman attended public schools in Barren County and he graduated from the Mayo–Underwood School in Frankfort, Kentucky. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] He was an alumnus of Kentucky State University (1938; then known as Kentucky State College), [ 1 ] [ 6 ] and a 1936 initiate of Kappa ...