First to serve, first to fight and first to sacrifice — African Americans in the U.S. Coast Guard > United States Coast Guard > My Coast Guard News
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on February 25, 2024
The Long Blue Line blog series has been publishing Coast Guard history essays for over 15 years. To access hundreds of these service stories, visit the Coast Guard Historian’s Office’s Long Blue Line online archives, located here: THE LONG BLUE LINE (uscg.mil)
The history of African American participation in the Coast Guard and its predecessor services dates back to the very founding of the Service in 1790. In over 225 years of . . .
