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West Point names barracks for black graduate
West Point will name a new cadet barracks for Benjamin O. Davis Jr. the first black West Point graduate to rise to general rank. Davis entered in 1932 as the academy’s lone black cadet faced ostracism yet persisted graduating 35th in a class of 276 and later led the 332nd Fighter Group and became the first black general of the Air Force.
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