Benjamin Oliver Davis, Jr. Perhaps the most important of the Tuskegee Airmen was Benjamin O. Davis, Jr., who attended West Point, where he survived four years of "silencing" and from which he graduated in 1936, to become captain of the 99th Pursuit Squadron, the "Tuskegee Experient."
Edmonia Lewis (1843-1911)
Edmonia Lewis was the first professional African American sculptor. Born of a free African American father and a Chippewa Indian mother, Lewis attended Oberlin College in Ohio in 1859, from which she was dismissed because of unsubstantiated accusations that she had poisoned several of her white female schoolmasters.
Marshall W. "Major" Taylor (1878-1934) was literally "the fastest bicyclist in the world" from 1898-1910, the year he retired from professional bicycling competition.
Facts taken from "1001 Things Everyone Should Know About African American History by Jeffrey C. Stewart. Thank you for visiting the Black History Month Page. Please come back and visit again!
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