Allison Davis

Biography

William Boyd Allison Davis (October 14, 1902 – November 21, 1983) was an American educator, anthropologist, writer, researcher, and scholar who became the third 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, after only Dr. Patrick Healy and George F. Grant, where he served for the remainder of his academic life. He was considered one of the most promising black scholars of his generation.

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