Charles Young to brigadier general at the United States Military Academy at West Point on April 29, 2022. Secretary of the Army Christine Wormuth approved the honorary promotion on Oct. 6 ...

“Charles Young weathered social isolation not only at West Point but throughout his military and National Parks career,” Renotta Young recalled in a speech Friday, adding that despite the hard ...

Army senior leaders honored U.S. Army Colonel Charles Young on Friday during a posthumous promotional ceremony held at United States Military Academy West Point, located in New York. Young’s ...

Rear view of Colonel Charles Young's tomb at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia. An Ohioan who graduated from West Point, rose to the rank of Colonel, taught at Wilberforce University ...

Charles Young was the third African American to graduate from the United States Military Academy at West Point. He went on to achieve the rank of colonel and serve as a military attache despite ...

Young pursued his father's passion for patriotism, becoming just the third Black graduate of West Point. Young was tapped ... Brigadier General Charles Young will beckon to the community as ...

A 1943 cartoon about the life of Col. Charles Young, the first African-American military attache and the highest-ranking black officer in the Army until his death in 1922. (Defense Intelligence ...