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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...
...Cadet Parham, appointed from Chicago by Negro Congressman Oscar De Priest, entered the Academy last summer (TIME, July 15). Almost at once he fell behind his class in mathematics (algebra and geometry). Once when he was about to resign Congressman De Priest came to see him, urged him to "stick it out." He started special coaching, stopped after a week. His grades in mathematics were so consistently low that his classmates suspected he was "boning foundation" (inviting discharge by failing to work). They felt that, though there was no hazing, no discrimination, he would not have entered the Academy...
...Miller, P. G. '31 Center 22 190 6.1 Swavely Prep. Murrell, J. H. '30 Back 23 185 5.9 Univ. of Minn. O'Keefe, R. J. '30 Back 24 165 5.9 Devitt Prep. Park, J. W. '31 Back 19 175 5.10 Western H. S. Parham, W. M. '31 Tackle 22 190 6. N. Georgia Ag. Perry, G. W. R. '30 Tackle 22 207 6.2 Bethel College Piper, C. N. '30 Back 24 160 5.10 Rose Poly. Inst. Price, J. M. '32 Tackle 19 195 6.2 N. W. Mil. & Nav. Ac. Ray, B. '32 Guard 19 190 6. North. High Schimmelphennig...
Prior to Cadet Parham in West Point's history, many a Negro had applied for admission. Twelve got in, three were graduated as second lieutenants. The last Negro Cadet was James B. Alexander of Ohio who entered in 1918, resigned after six months. The cost to the U. S. of making an Army officer out of each West Point cadet, white or black...