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William Allison Davis
1902-1983
Allison Davis led a long thoughtful life trying to help many others along on his journey. It all started on October 14, 1902, when William Allison Davis was born to John and Gabrielle Davis. They raised him on a farm in Virginia with his two siblings, Dorothy and John Jr. By the time he was a teenager the family moved to Washington DC. As a young child Allison Davis felt that he had to do something about the discrimination towards African Americans, so he devoted his life to trying to make a difference among the equal treatment children of different races.
Allison Davis worked really hard at everything that he did and that could explain why he was valedictorian of his high school class, at an all segregated Dunbar High School. Shortly after high school, Allison decided he wanted to fight the racial caste system. He first went to Williams College in Massachusetts, where he graduated as valedictorian in 1924 and also got his bachelor of arts. After Allison Davis got his Masters in English from Harvard University in 1925, he taught students English at Hampton Institute. After teaching he realized that there were many young African Americans being under schooled and he wanted that to change. So he went back to Harvard and got his Masters in Anthropology in 1932.