Powell, Colin L

Scope Note: 670 __ |a Colin Powell, 1991: |b CIP t.p. (Colin Powell) galley (b. Colin Luther Powell on 04-05-37) 670 __ |a The Oxford Companion to American Military History, accessed September 7, 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: |b (Powell, Colin L.; Colin Luther Powell; Secretary of State, Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman, Army Officer (1989-1995); born 05 April 1937 in Harlem, New York, New York, United States; graduated from City College, New York (1958); became the youngest general in the army (1979); White House Fellow (1972); served in the Office of the Secretary of Defense during Democratic and Republican administrations; appointed as the President Ronald Reagan’s deputy national security adviser (1987); selected, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (1989); played a central role during the 1991 Persian Gulf War; became the first African American Secretary of State (2000))

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