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 In late August of 1889, Charles Young graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point. He was only the third black cadet to do so. Henry Ossian Flipper and John Hanks Alexander were the first two. There would not be another black graduate in the nineteenth century. While all three had brilliant careers, Flipper’s was cut short in scandal, Alexander died suddenly of a heart attack. However, Young’s long career allowed him to become a celebrated hero in black America. Many whites, who knew and served with him, grew to admire and respect him. In Jim Crow America of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, Young would go on to hold many firsts as a black man. By any measure, this was quite an accomplishment. However, if the truth be told, there were as many as twenty-seven black men to attempt to enter and graduate West Point. Their names and stories are all but lost to history. In a culture of racism white supremacy, only the best prepared and truly game individuals could rise to the challenge to become West Pointers. The Four Horsemen of West Point, A Narrative History of the Black Cadets That Challenged the Color Line at The United States Military Academy and Won: Race, Class and Cultural Meaning Making 1870 to 1889, tells the stories of some of these erstwhile cadets. Their stories are ones of triumph, defeat, and resurrection. Collectively, these men, through their intrepid will of the spirit, brought down the walls of racial injustice and intolerance to open the door for future black men and women. 

                                                                                               Dr. Michael J. Winfield, Sr. 

                                                        AD ASTRA ASPERA

The twentieth century could very well be  remembered as the century of Black Greek Letter Organizations. And for good reasons. It was indeed a century of excellence for many African Americans. No other group of people can claim to have the sheer degree of accomplishments in all areas of human activity in the United States and in many other parts of the world as compared to the members of the various Black Greek Letter Organizations. Undoubtedly, these accomplishments are a source of unceasing pride and serve as a shining lodestar for all those associated with this august body of organizations. To the stars through adversity. 

         This edition of Before You Pledge includes a powerful, insightful, and inspiring foreword from an Omega man with almost six decades in service to the Omega Psi Phi Fraternity and the greater Black Greek Letter community.  His fraternal wisdom and council forces the reader to think about their next step before they pledge.

                                                                                           Dr. Michael J. Winfield, Sr. 

MOORE STREET: GROWING UP IN THE ERA OF JIM CROW is a compelling firsthand account of the author's boyhood years growing up in Fayetteville, North Carolina during the era of racial segregation, circa 1942-1960.

While the focus is on a neighborhood in Fayetteville, North Carolina, the story is a metaphor for the transcendences of manhood survival despite seemingly insurmountable obstacles.

The story is told in a readable and warm manner seasoned with actual instances of things which occurred to a young man growing up in an African American family and community filled with love and positive support.

This story had to be written in order to document insight into how life was growing up during this era in this Moore Street neighborhood by an eyewitness account.