West Point names barracks for black graduate who was shunned
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. The future Tuskegee Airman and trailblazing Air Force general later said he was "an invisible man."
Now, more than a decade after his death, the academy that allowed Davis to be ostracized is honoring him.
A new cadet barracks being constructed among the fortress-like buildings of the U.S. Military Academy will be named for Davis - a rare privilege previously granted to graduates with names like MacArthur and Eisenhower. Officials at the storied academy say Davis was a natural choice by dint of his career and character. It also gives the academy a chance to belatedly do right by Davis.
http://www.stripes.com/news/us/west-point-names-barracks-for-black-graduate-who-was-shunned-1.345449
I live a short distance from "the point" and this will be a distinctive building on the landscape visible to all from the river.