Gen. Benjamin O. Davis Jr. was born Dec. 18, 1912, to the Army's first Black general, Benjamin Davis Sr. and his wife, Elnora. Davis Sr., whose career was hampered by prejudice, taught his son the ...

Benjamin O. Davis Jr. was brought in as the new director of operations and training. There were 125 officers under him, all of them white. A small number, mostly from the South, said they would ...

Benjamin O. Davis Jr., a pioneering military officer who led the fabled Tuskegee Airmen during World War II and was the first African American to become a general in the Air Force, has died.

A committee will explore the best way to honor Gen. Benjamin O. Davis Jr. -- a historic Cleveland military veteran, original Tuskegee Airman and later the city's public safety director. The ...

The Aerospace Professor memoir: Meeting and greeting Tuskegee Airman General Benjamin O. Davis, Jr. as a hospital patient at Walter Reed Army Medical Center COLUMBIA, MARYLAND, UNITED STATES ...

His son, Benjamin O. Davis Jr., followed in his footsteps by joining the military and later commanding the famed Tuskegee Airmen. Twenty years after his father made history, Davis Jr. became ...

(Atria Black Privilege Publishing, Simon and Schuster) Benjamin O. Davis Sr. and Jr., were a father-son duo who, respectively, went on to become the Army’s first Black general and a four-star ...