Flipper family

The Flipper family is a notable African-American family of the United States.

Legally enslaved in Georgia prior to emancipation, the family produced entrepreneurs, ministers, educators, and a civil engineer and history writer who was also the first black graduate of West Point.

Carl Flipper taught leatherwork and shoemaking at an industrial school

"The Death of Flipper's Mother" ( The Atlanta Constitution , August 29, 1887)

Advertorial biography of Rev. J. S. Flipper ( The Atlanta Constitution , 1915)

The Flipper family in Atlanta in the 1870 census; their neighbor, Prince Ponder, a wheelwright, had also been enslaved by the Ponders ^{[

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