Riley Leroy Pitts was a United States Army Captain and the first African-American commissioned officer to receive the Medal of Honor. Pitts was born on October 15, 1937, in Fallis, Oklahoma. He attended Douglass High School in Oklahoma City. He earned a bachelor’s degree in Journalism from Wichita State University in 1960 and worked briefly […]
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