The United States Military Academy has unveiled its newest barracks on campus to honor the life and legacy of General Benjamin O. Davis, Jr.
Gen. Davis was the fourth African-American cadet to ever graduate from West Point, in 1936. As a Tuskegee Airman, when President Harry Truman ended segregation in the armed services in 1948, Davis became an key part in developing an integration plan in the newly formed U.S. Air Force.
The Davis Barracks stands 110 feet tall in the central area of West Point's campus. It's 287,000 square feet, with 320 rooms to house 640 cadets.
It also includes study space and green technology like solar collection tubes.