Harvey D. Williams

Harvey D. Williams

African-American U.S. Army major general (1930–2020)

📍 Durham, North Carolina USA

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Harvey Dean Williams Sr. was a United States Army major general. He was the first African-American post commander of Fort Myer, and was the Deputy Inspector General of the U.S. Army in 1980. He commanded artillery units in the Korean War and Vietnam War and his 1978 activism after facing discrimination as an African-American soldier in Augsburg, West Germany made international news.

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