Frank E. Petersen, First Black General in Marines, DEAD @ 83

He was a former sugar-cane plantation worker Born in St. Croix, the Virgin Islands, but grew up in Topeka, Kan.
Frank E. Petersen Jr., suffered extremely difficult racial indignities as a military enlistee in the 1950s including an arrest for suspicion of impersonating a lieutenant.  He became the first black aviator and the first black general in the Marine Corps.


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