Hi All thought you might be interested in some photograps of African Americans in the military.

Enjoy,

Lee

African American Photo Museum
http://members.aol.com/usregistry/Americans/index.html

Richard Etheridge and his Pea Island Life-Saving Station crew in 1896.
Etheridge was the first African-American keeper of a U.S. Life-Saving Station
http://www.uscg.mil/hq/g-cp/history/CG_Famous_Photos_Index.html

Captain "Hell Roaring" Mike Healy, USRCS
Captain Healy was the first commissioned African-American officer of the United States Government and the first to command a U.S. warship. (He was also the brother of Father Healy, first African American President of Georgetown university.)
http://www.uscg.mil/hq/g-cp/history/CG_Famous_Photos_Index.html