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Benjamin Oliver Davis Sr. (July 1, 1877 – November 26, 1970) was a career officer in the United States Army.One of the few black officers in an era when American society was largely segregated, in 1940 he was promoted to brigadier general, the army's first African American general officer.
In 1940, Benjamin O. Davis Sr. became the first Black person to achieve the rank of brigadier general in the US Army. His son, Benjamin O. Davis Jr., later commanded the famed Tuskegee Airmen. In ...
First African-American flag officer: BG Benjamin O. Davis Sr., U.S. Army [158] [Note 9] First African American to earn a doctorate in library science: Eliza Atkins Gleason, from the University of Chicago [159]
Benjamin Oliver Davis Jr. was born in Washington, D.C. on December 18, 1912, the second of three children born to Benjamin O. Davis Sr. and Elnora Dickerson Davis. [1] His father was a U.S. Army officer, a lieutenant at that time, stationed in Wyoming with the 9th Cavalry, a segregated African-American regiment.
Prominent African Americans who lived just beyond the historic district's boundaries included poets Langston Hughes and Georgia Douglas Johnson, educator Lucy Diggs Slowe, military officer Benjamin O. Davis Sr., opera singer Todd Duncan, attorney Charles Hamilton Houston, civil rights activist Dutton Ferguson who challenged segregation on U ...
Robert Scott Duncanson, Landscape with Rainbow c. 1859, Hudson River School, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC.. This list of African-American visual artists is a list that includes dates of birth and death of historically recognized African-American fine artists known for the creation of artworks that are primarily visual in nature, including traditional media such as painting ...
This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:20th-century American painters. It includes American painters that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent.
Doug Melville was dismayed when he found the name of his great uncle and Tuskegee Airman Benjamin O. Davis Jr. omitted and replaced in the film Red Tails, and set out on a mission to uncover and ...