During Black History Month, we are honoring Tuskegee Airmen commanding officer Benjamin Davis Jr. After attending the University of Chicago, he went to West Point, and ended up becoming the first ...
Morocco, May 12, 1943. Pictured are, from left, Commanding Officer Lt Col Benjamin O Davis Jr (1912 - 2002), Capt Hayden Johnson (Adjutant), Capt Elmer Jones (1918 - 2013) (Service Detachment), Lt ...
Indeed, his son, the future general Benjamin O. Davis Jr., graduated from West Point in 1936 and commanded a squadron of Tuskegee Airmen. Davis also mentored future African American officers and ...
Tuskegee Airmen Benjamin O. Davis, left, and Edward C ... On Monday, Tuskegee Airmen, Inc. National President Leon G. Butler Jr. praised Air Force leadership for responding quickly to the non ...
Charles McGee fought in three wars and lived to see his 102d birthday. He marked the occasion ... portraits of his onetime boss, Gen. Benjamin O. Davis Jr., who became the Air Force’s first ...
IN THE BEGINNING THERE WAS DAVIS Benjamin O. Davis, Jr., was the son of the first Black general in the U.S. Army, Brigadier General Benjamin O. Davis, Sr. Davis, Jr., who I will refer to from here on ...
By Dr. Harold A. Black blackh@knoxfocus.com haroldblackphd.com. When I was young we observed Black History Week. In 1926 the eminent histor ...
February is Black History Month and KTBS 3/KPXJ CW 21 continue to salute the contributions of African Americans in labor with ...
William “Bill” Russell Davis, Jr., 85, of Chattanooga, Tennessee passed away on Tuesday, February 18, 2025. He was born in Chattanooga to the late William R. Davis, Sr., and Eileen Jordan Davis.
FIU today is unveiling the architectural renderings of the Benjamín León Jr. Building, which will house CasaCuba, an academic and cultural center to preserve and celebrate Cuban and Cuban American ...