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. The future Tuskegee Airman and ...

Gen. Benjamin O. Davis Jr. is being honored by the academy where he was ostracized as a cadet in the 1930s. On Friday, West Point dedicated the new barracks named for Davis.

WEST POINT, N.Y. — 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.

Benjamin O. Davis Jr. was the only black cadet at the academy in 1932, where he had no roommates or friends and was rarely ever spoken to. But he became one of West Point's most accomplished ...

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. The future Tuskegee Airman and trailblazi… ...

Benjamin Oliver Davis Jr., who was born in 1912 in Washington, D.C., is seen as a young cadet at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y., and later as an Air Force lieutenant general.

WEST POINT, N.Y. -- In 1932, Benjamin O. Davis Jr. entered the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, only to be silenced by the Corps of Cadets. Eighty-five years later, USMA has payed homage to ...

Davis entered the U.S. Military Academy at West Point in July 1932. Enduring four years of isolation due to racism-he roomed alone and was largely ignored by his peers-he nonetheless graduated in ...

Benjamin O. Davis Jr., left, and his father, Benjamin O. Davis Sr., shake hands on the day of his graduation from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1936.