“My position as an officer of the United States, entitles me to wear the insignia of my office, and if I am either afraid or ashamed to wear them, anywhere, I am not fit to hold my commission.”
The quote above was made by Dr. Alexander T. Augusta after being badly attacked by a group of white men while wearing his uniform on a Baltimore train.
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