Word: parham
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...uniform as they passed through Manhattan on their way home, but newsgatherers had no trouble in singling out the one they were looking for; a tall, broad-shouldered boy of 20 whose face was darker than the dark brown-paper bundle under his arm. He was Alonzo Souleigh Parham, the fourteenth Negro to enter West Point, the eleventh to leave before graduation...
Tactless newsgatherers stabbed with questions. Cadet Parham, more tactful than they, replied: "I got a square deal. I was given very good treatment. The officers were my friends and cadets, too, both from the North and South." Had he been happy? "Well, take any young fellow away from home out where men are men. He's going to be lonesome and homesick sometimes. Some of them resigned." Would he make a racial issue of his failure? "I should...