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(The Medal of Honor is the highest military decoration awarded by the United States government. It is bestowed on a member of the United States armed forces who distinguishes himself “conspicuously by gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty while engaged in an action against an enemy of the United States”.[1] Because of the nature of its criteria, the medal is often awarded posthumously.)

The List of African American Medal of Honor Winners:

The Civil War
Aaron Anderson (born 1811, date of death unknown)
Bruce Anderson (19 June 1845—August 22, 1922)
William Henry Barnes (1845—December 24, 1866)
Powhatan Beaty (8 October 1837—December 16, 1916)
Robert Blake (birth/death dates unknown)
James H. Bronson (1838—March 16, 1884)
William H. Brown (1836—November 5, 1896)
Wilson Brown (1841—January 24, 1900)
William Harvey Carney (29 February 1840—December 9, 1908)
Decatur Dorsey (1836—July 11, 1891)
Christian Abraham Fleetwood (21 July 1840—September 28, 1914)
James Daniel Gardner (16 September 1839—September 29, 1905)
James H. Harris (1828—January 28, 1898)
Thomas R. Hawkins (1840—February 28, 1870)
Alfred B. Hilton (1842—October 21, 1864)
Milton Murray Holland (1 August 1844—May 15, 1910)
Miles James (1829—August 28, 1871)
Alexander Kelly (7 April 1840—June 19, 1907)
John Henry Lawson (16 June 1837—May 3, 1919)
James Mifflin (born 1839, date of death unknown)
Joachim Pease (born 1842, date of death unknown)
Robert A. Pinn (1 March 1843—January 1, 1911)
Edward Ratcliff (March 10, 1835—March 10, 1915)
Andrew Jackson Smith (3 September 1843 – 4 March 1932)
Charles Veale (1838—July 27, 1872)

The Indian Wars
Thomas Boyne (1849—April 21, 1896)
Benjamin Brown (1859—September 5, 1910)
John Denny (1846—November 28, 1901)
Pompey Factor (1849—March 28, 1928)
Clinton Greaves (12 August 1855—August 18, 1906)
Henry Johnson (11 June 1850—January 21, 1904)
George Jordan (1847—24 October 1904)
Isaiah Mays (16 February 1858—2 May 1925)
William McBryar (14 February 1861—8 March 1941)
Adam Paine (1843—1 January 1877)
Isaac Payne (1854—12 January 1904)
Thomas Shaw (1846—23 June 1895)
Emanuel Stance (circa 1847—25 December 1887)
Augustus Walley (10 March 1856—9 April 1938)
John Ward (1847—24 May 1911)
Moses Williams (1849—23 August 1899)
William Othello Wilson (September 1867—18 January 1928)
Brent Woods (1850—1906)

The Spanish-American War
Edward Lee Baker, Jr. (28 December 1865—26 August 1913)
Dennis Bell (28 December 1866—25 September 1953)
Fitz Lee (June 1866—14 September 1899)
Robert Penn (10 October 1872—8 June 1912)
William H. Thompkins (3 October 1872—24 September 1916)
George Henry Wanton (15 May 1868—27 November 1940)

WWI
Freddie Stowers (1896—28 September 1918)

WWII
(In the years after World War II, no African American had yet been awarded the Medal of Honor for action in that conflict. It wasn’t until 1992 that a study conducted by Shaw University, a private Social Reserch HBCU, commissioned by the U.S. Dept. of Defense and the United States Army described systematic racial discrimination in the criteria for awarding medals during the war. After an exhaustive review of files the study recommended that several Distinguished Service Crosses awarded to African Americans be upgraded to the Medal of Honor. On January 13, 1997, more than fifty years after the end of the war, President Bill Clinton awarded the medal to seven African American World War II veterans. Vernon Baker was the only living recipient, the other six men had been killed in action or died in the intervening years.)

Vernon Joseph Baker (born 17 December 1919)
Edward Allen Carter, Jr. (26 May 1916—January 30, 1963)
John Robert Fox (18 May 1915—December 26, 1944)
Willy F. James, Jr. (18 March 1920—April 8, 1945)
Ruben Rivers (30 October 1918—19 November 1944)
Charles Leroy Thomas (17 April 1920—15 February 1980)
George Watson (14 March 1914—March 8, 1943)

Korean War
Cornelius H. Charlton (24 July 1929—2 June 1951)
William Henry Thompson (16 August 1927—August 6, 1950)

Vietnam War
James Anderson, Jr. (22 January 1947—28 February 1967)
Webster Anderson (15 July 1933—30 August 2003)
Eugene Ashley, Jr. (12 October 1931—7 February 1968)
Oscar Palmer Austin (15 January 1948—23 February 1969)
William Maud Bryant (16 February 1933—24 March 1969)
Rodney Maxwell Davis (7 April 1942—6 September 1967)
Robert Henry Jenkins, Jr. (1 June 1948—5 March 1969)
Lawrence Joel (22 February 1928—4 February 1984)
Dwight Hal Johnson (7 May 1947—30 April 1971)
Ralph Henry Johnson (11 January 1949—5 March 1968)
Garfield McConnell Langhorn (10 September 1948—15 January 1969)
Matthew Leonard (26 November 1929—28 February 1967)
Donald Russell Long (27 August 1939—30 June 1966)
Milton Lee Olive, III (7 November 1946—22 October 1965)
Riley Leroy Pitts (15 October 1937—31 October 1967)
Charles Calvin Rogers (6 September 1929—21 September 1990)
Ruppert Leon Sargent (6 January 1938—15 March 1967)
Clarence Eugene Sasser (born 12 September 1947)
Clifford Chester Sims (18 June 1942—21 February 1968)
John Earl Warren, Jr. (16 November 1946—14 January 1969)

Peacetime
Daniel Atkins (18 November 1866—11 May 1923)
John Davis (1854—19 August 1903)
Alphonse Girandy (21 January 1868—3 April 1941)
John Johnson (born 1839, date of death unknown)
William Johnson (1855—20 May 1903)
Joseph B. Noil (born 1841, date of death unknown)
John Smith (born 1854, date of death unknown)
Robert Augustus Sweeney (20 February 1853—19 December 1890)

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