Sequoia National Park

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This file appears in: Charles Young Birthplace
Sequoia National Park

Charles Young became the first African American superintendent of a National Park. Courtesy of the Library of Congress.

This file appears in: Charles Young Birthplace

By Tim Talbott
Historical Marker #124 in Mason County notes the birthplace of Charles Young, an early African American graduate of the United States Military Academy and the first black colonel in the U.S. Army. Young was born into slavery in 1864, just as the…