Allison Davis
Writer, Author
1902 – 1983
Who was Allison Davis?
William Boyd Allison Davis was an educator, anthropologist, writer, researcher, and scholar. He was considered one of the most promising black scholars of his generation, and became the first African-American to hold a full faculty position at a major white university when he joined the staff of the University of Chicago in 1942, where he would spend the balance of his academic life. Among his students during his tenure at the University of Chicago were anthropologist St. Clair Drake and sociologist Nathan Hare. Davis, who has been honored with a commemorative postage stamp by the United States Postal Service, is best remembered for his pioneering anthropology research on southern race and class during the 1930s, his research on intelligence quotient in the 1940s and 50’s, and his support of “compensatory education” that contributed to the intellectual genesis of the federal program Head Start.
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- Born
- Oct 14, 1902
Washington, D.C. - Also known as
- William Boyd Allison Davis
- Siblings
- Ethnicity
- African American
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Williams College
- Harvard University
- Died
- Nov 21, 1983
Chicago
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on July 23, 2013
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