who was the in the first black man in general us army
The first Black to head an armed forces base in the United States was B.O. Davis Jr., who was named commander of Godman Field (Ky.) on June 21, 1945. The first Black to command an army division was Major General Frederic E. Davidson, who assumed command of the Eighth Infantry Division in Germany on April 19, 1972. The first Black general in the Marine Corps was Frank E. Peterson Jr., who achieved the rank on February 23, 1979.