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FIRST AFRICAN AMERICAN TO WIN MEDAL
Recognized for heroically protecting the American flag during
the Civil War, Army Sgt. William Harvey Carney received the
Medal of Honor, the nation’s highest military decoration, on
this day in 1900.
The first Black American service member to earn the award,
Carney was born into slavery in Virginia in 1840.
Although a handful of other Black service members had
already received the medal, Carney’s award celebrated
an earlier action.
He was one of many Civil War-era honorees to be granted
the medal decades later.
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