William Thompson
... that in 1951 William Thompson posthumously became the first African American to be awarded the Medal of Honor since the Spanish–American War?
... that in 1951 <b id="mwBkw"><a href="./William_Thompson_(Medal_of_Honor,_1950)" id="mwBk0" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="William Thompson (Medal of Honor, 1950)">William Thompson</a></b> <i id="mwBk4">(pictured)</i> posthumously became the first African American to be awarded the <a href="./Medal_of_Honor" id="mwBk8" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Medal of Honor">Medal of Honor</a> since the <a href="./Spanish–American_War" id="mwBlA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Spanish–American War">Spanish–American War</a>?