FILE – Lee Barracks, named for Civil War General Robert E. Lee, is shown at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, July 13, 2020, in West Point, N.Y.

And last week, the Academy opened a new barracks named after Benjamin O. Davis Jr., who—after being shunned at West Point because of his race in the 1930s—eventually commanded the Tuskegee ...

The U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York, is naming its newest cadet barracks after Air Force Gen. Benjamin Oliver Davis Jr., a Tuskegee Airman who had graduated from the academy.

By MICHAEL HILL WEST POINT, N.Y. (AP) – Benjamin O. Davis Jr. entered West Point in 1932 as its only black cadet and spent the next four years shunned. He roomed alone, and no one befriended him.

West Point cadets pass by historical reminders constantly — from Grant Hall and Bradley Barracks to the statues of Douglas MacArthur and Dwight Eisenhower overlooking the parade fields. Now a ...

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