2004-06-07 - 9:57 a.m.
The first black to win a Victoria Cross (equivalent to the US Medal of Honor, but slightly more prestigous) was William Hall of Nova Scotia. He won it in 1857.
When he won this, blacks in the US had not yet been legally emancipated and would not -for the most part- be allowed in combat until the 1940s.
Yet the US is the most "advanced" and "liberal" country in the world.
When did the first black win a Medal of Honor?
