ĭavis toured Europe with the Bates College debating team. Costello, when Delta Sigma Rho's national council denied him membership because of his race. He enlisted the aid of Bates trustee Louis B. At Bates, he was president of Delta Sigma Rho, an honorary debating fraternity, and editor of the student publication The Bobcat. and double honors in English and Psychology. In 1922, he enrolled in Bates College in Lewiston, Maine. Davis served as Secretary to the Presidential Commission investigating the economic conditions in the Virgin Islands.ĭavis attended segregated schools in Washington, D.C., graduating from the elite Dunbar High School, which stressed an academic curriculum.

Emmett Jay Scott, Special Assistant to the United States Secretary of War. His father was a graduate of Howard University and served as principal of Armstrong High School. Davis was born in Washington, D.C., the son of Dr. He also published the American Negro Reference Book, covering virtually every aspect of African-American life, present and past. In 1946, he founded Our World magazine, a full-size, nationally distributed publication for African-American readers. In 1935, he co-founded the National Negro Congress, an organization dedicated to the advancement of African Americans during the Great Depression. John Preston Davis (Janu– September 11, 1973) was an American journalist, lawyer and activist intellectual, who became prominent for his work with the Joint Committee on National Recovery (JCNR).

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