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William Goines
U.S. Navy SEAL (–)
William Harvey Goines (September 10, – June 10, ) was a United States Navy SEAL and the first African-American Navy SEAL, though Engineman Second Class Fred "Tiz" Morrison has often been credited as being the first African-American Navy SEAL.[1]
Biography
Goines was born in Dayton, Ohio, on September 10, [2] While he was a child, his family moved to Lockland, in suburban Cincinnati.
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His father worked menial jobs in the automotive industry, mainly for Oldsmobile, and had a second job in a pool hall, but often got fired from jobs because of the segregationist attitudes at the time. As a child, Goines was unaware that Lockland had a public swimming pool because African Americans were not allowed to swim there.
He recalled that when the pool was forced to integrate, it was instead filled with rocks and gravel. He learned to swim in a nearby creek and the Little Miami River, and occasionally travelled with his family to a ne