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Photo #: NH 95625

Reunion of early African-American U.S. Navy Officers

On board USS Kidd (DDG-993) in April 1982.
They are (seated, left to right):
Jesse W. Arbor;
Dalton L. Baugh;
William S. White;
Samuel E. Barnes;
(standing, left to right):
George C. Cooper;
James E. Hare;
John W. Reagan;
Graham E. Martin;
Wesley A. Brown;
Frank E. Sublett.
Brown was the first African-American graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy. The others were members of "the Golden Thirteen", the first African-American Navy officers, who were commissioned in 1944.

Courtesy of Surface Warfare Magazine, 1982.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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26 June 1998