My May 2021 blog post, The Mystery of the West Point Cavalry Detachment Football Team, told the story of the National Archives' discovery of two mid-1920s photographs of a football team posing in West Point's Michie Stadium. The images are notable because the players in the pictures are black, despite West Point's varsity football team remaining all-white for another forty years. Unfortunately, neither the
West Point Cavalry Detachment Football
West Point Cavalry Detachment Football
West Point Cavalry Detachment Football
My May 2021 blog post, The Mystery of the West Point Cavalry Detachment Football Team, told the story of the National Archives' discovery of two mid-1920s photographs of a football team posing in West Point's Michie Stadium. The images are notable because the players in the pictures are black, despite West Point's varsity football team remaining all-white for another forty years. Unfortunately, neither the