Military units – Navy
The Golden 14 (1918-1919)
The Golden 14 were the first Black women to muster into the United States Navy. First recognized by scholar Kelly...
The USS PC-1264 (1943-1946)
The USS PC-1264 was a PC-461- class submarine chaser built for the United States Navy. The vessel was one of...
John Andrew Burroughs, Jr. (1936-2014)
John Andrew Burroughs Jr. was an equal opportunity advocate and diplomat who was born in Washington, D.C. on July 31,...
Samuel (“Sammy”) Leamon Younge, Jr. (1944-1966)
Samuel (“Sammy”) Leamon Younge Jr. was a 21-year-old civil rights activist who was shot to death on January 3, 1966...
Henry Davis Green (1827-1911)
Henry Davis Green was an anti-slavery activist (abolitionist) who was a participant in the Christiana Resistance (also known as the...
Port Chicago Mutiny (1944)
The Port Chicago Mutiny involved African American enlisted men in the U.S. Navy who refused to return to loading ammunition...
John [aka “Jack Punch”] Perkins (?-1812)
Captain John Perkins, nicknamed Jack Punch, was the first black commissioned officer in the Royal Navy. His date of birth...
Henry Berry Lowry (ca. 1846-1872)
In 1853, the Lumbee Indians, a triracial people who are descendants of several southeastern Indian tribes, whites, and African Americans,...
