Military Conflict – Gulf War I
Shaggy/ Orville Richard Burrell (1968- )
Orville Richard Burrell, whose stage name is Shaggy, was born October 22, 1968 in Kingston, Jamaica. The Jamaican-American is a...
Ernest Talbert (1950- )
Two-star Major General Ernest George Talbert Jr. was born April 23, 1950 to Dorothy Georgie Burkett Talbert (1926-2020), Deputy Director...
Darryl Atwell Cecil Williams (1961- )
On July 2, 2018, Lieutenant General Darryl A. Williams became the first African American to be sworn in to lead...
Larry R. Jordan (1946- )
Lieutenant General Larry R. Jordan is a former Army officer, former Senior Vice President of Burdeshaw Associates, Ltd., and current Principal of...
John D. Hopper (1947- )
Retired Lt. General John D. Hopper was born in Clarksville, Tennessee in 1947. He attended Lyndon McKinley high school in Columbus, Ohio and...
Calvin Augustine Hoffman Waller (1937-1996)
Calvin Augustine Hoffman Waller was a United States Army officer who rose to prominence as the Deputy Commander-in-Chief for military operations with...
James T. Whitehead, Jr. (1934- )
James Whitehead, Jr., the first African American Lockheed U2 pilot, was born in Jersey City, New Jersey in 1934. From a young age...
Roger Owensby Jr. (1971-2000)
Roger Owensby Jr. was a twenty-nine-year-old African-American who died at the hands of Cincinnati Police officers during a scuffle in the...
Michelle Janine Howard (1960- )
Michelle J. Howard is the first African American woman to command a Navy ship and the first woman of any race...
