PFC Milton Lee Olive III

Olive's family received the Medal of Honor on the White House steps. He was 18 when he smothered an enemy grenade in the jungle near Phu Cuong on October 22, 1965, and the four soldiers with him survived. President Johnson presented the medal to Olive's father and stepmother on April 21, 1966, with two of the men he saved in attendance. Olive, the first Black recipient of the Medal of Honor in the Vietnam War, had finished high school in Lexington. Chicago, where he was born, named a lakefront park for him in 1999.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Triangle Cultural Center — 27 mi
  A 1904 school on Main Street in Yazoo City that survived the great fire of that May and now holds the county's historical museum, in a town rebuilt in brick on the same lots.

More markers nearby

• Dr. Arenia Conelia Mallory — 0.6 mi
• St. Paul Church of God in Christ — 0.9 mi
• Holmes County Blues — 1.5 mi
• Hazel Brannon Smith — 1.5 mi