Portrait of Brigadier General Benjamin Oliver Davis Sr (1877 - 1970) (left), his son Lieutenant Colonel Benjamin O Davis Jr ...

Another Tuskegee Airman, Benjamin O. Davis Jr., and a friend of Dansby Jr., was a West Point graduate, and was so thoroughly scorned that no one spoke to him the entire four years he was at the ...

In 1975, General Benjamin O Davis Jr would get a call from President Jimmy Carter to implement the 55mph Speed Limit Nationwide. A first for a Black American.

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.

Like General Benjamin O. Davis Jr., dad had to endure the silence of his classmates for all four years at the Point – nobody would speak to him except for official tasks.

So, Davis Jr. moved alone to Chicago for nearly two years to secure the nomination and his spot at West Point. In 1932, he received orders to report to West Point and four years of shunning began.

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.