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Private First Class James Anderson Jr. (January 22, 1947 – February 28, 1967) was a United States Marine who posthumously received the Medal of Honor for heroism while serving in Vietnam in February 1967. When his Medal of Honor was awarded on August 21, 1967, he became the first African-American U.S. Marine recipient of the Medal of Honor. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Anderson_Jr.