General Daniel “Chappie” James
Daniel “Chappie” James Jr. was born in 1920. His mother, a high school teacher, established her own private “Lillie A James School” for her own and other Black children in Pensacola, Florida. He went on to attend Tuskegee Institute and become a fighter pilot in the United States Air Force who, in 1975, became the first African American to reach the rank of four-star general in the United States Armed Forces.
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