Clifford L. Alexander Jr., a Harlem-raised ... to legal work until President Jimmy Carter tapped him in 1977 as Army secretary. His military experience was scant — he had served briefly as ...

The nation's first Black secretary of the Army passed away this month at the age of 88. His daughter Elizabeth Alexander, poet and president of the Mellon Foundation, stops by the Sunday Show to ...

Clifford Alexander, secretary of the Army during the Carter Administration, suggested throughout his term that opposition to the volunteer Army was ultimately racist, from officers who didn't like ...

Clifford Alexander, Secretary of the United States Army under President Carter and chairman of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission under President Johnson, talks with Rachel Maddow ...

The phrase “black lives matter†has become a rallying cry for a new chapter in the long black freedom struggle. But this new movement’s penchant ...

Provided by People Bill O'Leary/The Washington Post via Getty Clifford Leopold Alexander Jr., the first African American named Secretary of the United States Army, died this weekend at 88.