Today in Afro History ! Benjamin O. Davis Jr. becomes the first Afro American U.S. Air Force General in 1959 ! Langston Hughes passes away in 1967.

Col. Benjamin O. Davis Jr. Col. Benjamin O. Davis Jr., commander of the Tuskegee Airmen 332nd Fighter Group, in front of his P-47 Thunderbolt in Sicily. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

from http://www.af.mil/shared/media/photodb/photos/070207-F-9999W-001.jpg. General Benjamin O. Davis Jr. Benjamin O. Davis Jr., an aviation pioneer, is one of the most famous Tuskegee Airmen of World War II. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

LIEUT. COL. BENJAMIN O. DAVIS, JR. – AIR FIGHTER – NARA – 535698 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Langston Hughes, 29 February 1936 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)