Since I wrote about Vice Admiral Samuel Gravely Jr yesterday here is an older post about Brigadier General Benjamin O Davis USA and Colonel Benjamin O Davis Jr USAF…Peace, Padre Steve+
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Brigadier General Benjamin O Davis in France 1944
“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.” Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
American History would not be the same without the life, work and prophetic ministry of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Dr. King was born in a time when most of the country was segregated when “separate by equal” was simply façade to cover the lie that in no way did African Americans have equal rights or privileges in the United States. Dr King was born less than 60 years after the secession of the Southern states from the Union and the beginning of the American Civil War. Though that blood conflict had freed the slaves it had not freed African Americans from…
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