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100 Black Americans compiled by Stan Woodard, September 2006 for the installation I see no one, no one sees me

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Sherian Cadoria (born 1940) was born in Marksville, Louisiana to tenant farm worker parents. In 1961, during her senior college year, Cadoria applied for an Army commission and received it. After graduating with a degree in business education, she trained at Fort McClellan in Alabama. Her experience there was not only grueling, but terrifying. For the first time in her life she was faced with demonstrations from the Ku Klux Klan, who were protesting the integration of blacks in the military. Promoted to Brigadier General in 1985, Cadoria became the highest ranking black woman in the Women's Army Corps at that time. She retired from the Army in 1990, following 29 years of distinguished service. http://www.horatioalger.org/members/member_info.cfm?memberid=CAD03