{"id":412,"date":"2015-08-28T14:33:07","date_gmt":"2015-08-28T18:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/veterans\/?p=412"},"modified":"2024-02-13T08:24:00","modified_gmt":"2024-02-13T13:24:00","slug":"first-black-general-in-marines-dies-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/veterans\/first-black-general-in-marines-dies-2\/","title":{"rendered":"First Black General in Marines Dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 id=\"story-heading\" class=\"story-heading\">Frank E. Petersen, First Black General in Marines, Dies at 83<\/h1>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/veterans\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2015\/08\/27petersen-obit-superJumbo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-413\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/veterans\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2015\/08\/27petersen-obit-superJumbo-209x300.jpg\" alt=\"27petersen-obit-superJumbo\" width=\"209\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/veterans\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2015\/08\/27petersen-obit-superJumbo-209x300.jpg 209w, https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/veterans\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2015\/08\/27petersen-obit-superJumbo-715x1024.jpg 715w, https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/veterans\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2015\/08\/27petersen-obit-superJumbo.jpg 1430w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 209px) 100vw, 209px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Frank E. Petersen Jr., who suffered bruising racial indignities as a military enlistee in the 1950s and was even arrested at an officers\u2019 club on suspicion of impersonating a lieutenant, but who endured to become the first black aviator and the first black general in the Marine Corps, died on Tuesday at his home in Stevensville, Md., near Annapolis. He was 83.<\/p>\n<p>Check out the NY Times Obituary by clicking <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/08\/27\/us\/frank-e-petersen-first-black-general-in-marines-dies-at-83.html?smid=nytcore-ipad-share&amp;smprod=nytcore-ipad&amp;_r=0\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frank E. Petersen, First Black General in Marines, Dies at 83 Frank E. Petersen Jr., who suffered bruising racial indignities as a military enlistee in the 1950s and was even arrested at an officers\u2019 club on suspicion of impersonating a lieutenant, but who endured to become the first black aviator and the first black general &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/veterans\/first-black-general-in-marines-dies-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">First Black General in Marines Dies<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/veterans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/veterans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/veterans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/veterans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/veterans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=412"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/veterans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":414,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/veterans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412\/revisions\/414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/veterans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/veterans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/veterans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}