Invisible Generals: Rediscovering Family Legacy, and a Quest to Honor America's First Black Generals
Doug Melville
Black Privilege Publishing/Simon & Schuster
Doug Melville expected to see his great-uncle Benjamin O. Davis Jr. immortalized on-screen for his selfless contributions to America in George Lucas’ Red Tails. However, Ben Jr.’s name had been replaced by the fictional Colonel A. J. Bullard. And Ben’s father, Benjamin O. Davis Sr., America’s first Black general who helped integrate the military, was left out completely.
Dejected, Doug looked inward and realized that unless he worked to bring their inspirational story to light, it would remain hidden from the world just as it had been concealed from him.