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Johnson Chesnut Whittaker (August 23, 1858 – January 14, 1931) [1] was one of the first black men to win an appointment to the United States Military Academy at West Point. [2] When at the academy, he was brutally assaulted and then expelled after being falsely accused and convicted of faking the incident. [ 3 ]
Johnson Whittaker, a black cadet at West Point, is attacked by three fellow students. The school administrators court-martial Whittaker in the mistaken belief that he staged his own attack, supposedly to avoid a philosophy exam. The assault on him by fellow cadets quickly makes its way into the press and gained widespread attention.
Johnson Chesnut Whittaker’s tumultuous cadet experience was the subject of the Showtime movie “Assault at West Point: The Court Martial of Johnson Whittaker” based on a book by John ...
Johnson Chesnut Whittaker: 1881 Born into slavery; expelled after board of inquiry and court-martial {falsely} convicted him of staging an assault on his own person; verdict overturned by President Chester Arthur-but Whittaker still expelled on grounds he failed a exam.
John Orson Whitaker, Jr. (born December 13, 1959) [1] is an American actor notable for several film and television performances during his childhood. The redheaded Whitaker played Jody Davis on Family Affair from 1966 to 1971.
Godfather of Harlem is an American crime drama television series that premiered on September 29, 2019, on Epix. [1] The series is written by Chris Brancato and Paul Eckstein, and stars Forest Whitaker as 1960s New York City gangster Bumpy Johnson.
In 1880, one of the first black cadets at West Point, Johnson Chesnut Whittaker, was assaulted by three fellow cadets, but administrators at the Academy said he had faked the attack. After a year of inquests and hearings including the attention of the United States Congress , Whittaker was court-martialed , with Gardiner as prosecutor ...
Whittaker will go on to win the bout, on the undercard of Savannah Marshall’s title win against Franchon Crews-Dezurn, to move to 4-0 (3 knockouts) as a professional. And as he looks to stay ...