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  1. Jun 30, 2021 · Video by Vincent Pecoraro. Benjamin O. Davis Sr. was the first African American to earn the rank of brigadier general in the United States Army.Throughout his 50-year career, he contin...

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    • Arlington National Cemetery
  2. © 2024 Google LLC. In this week in military history, we explore the military career of Brigadier General Benjamin O. Davis, Sr., who in January 1941 became the first African Am...

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    • Pritzker Military Museum & Library
  3. Davis was born in Washington D.C. and, although his army records and gravestone claim that he was born in 1877, his biographer has found a census document th...

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    • HistoryPod
  4. 1 view 12 minutes ago. BENJAMIN O. DAVIS SR. (1877-1970) 💠Benjamin O. Davis Sr. ...more. BENJAMIN O. DAVIS SR. (1877-1970)💠Benjamin O. Davis Sr. 💠1st Black...

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  5. Feb 25, 2024 Updated Feb 28, 2024. 0. Benjamin O. Davis, Sr. (right) and Benjamin O. Davis, Jr. Davis Sr. was the first African American general in the United States Army....

  6. Davis said he was born in Washington, D.C., on July 1, 1877, the third child of Louis P. H. Davis and Henrietta (née Stewart) Davis. Called "Ollie" as a boy, he was raised in the LeDroit Park neighborhood of Washington and attended the Lucretia Mott School. Davis attended M Street High School in Washington, where he played baseball and ...

  7. Feb 25, 2024 · 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., followed in his footsteps by...

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