Dr. allison davis biography
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Davis, Allison 1902-1983
Social anthropologist, educator
Rising Through the Academic Ranks
How Black Americans Get Categorized
Selected writings
Sources
On February 1, 1994, the late University of Chicago social anthropologist Allison Davis joined the prestigious ranks of such outstanding African Americans as Martin Luther King, Jr., A. Philip Randolph, Harriet Tubman, W.E.B. DuBois, and Jackie Robinson. The occasion was the issuance of a new United Statespostage stamp in Davis’s honor-the 17th in the Postal Service’s Black Heritage stamp series. “He challenged the cultural bias of standardized intelligence tests and fought for the understanding of the human potential beyond racial class and caste,” a Postal Service announcement declared. “His work helped end legalized racial segregation and contributed to contemporary thought on valuing the capabilities of youth from diverse backgrounds.”
Unfortunately, the late Dr. Davis’s
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When black historian Carter G. Woodson founded Negro History Week in 1926 (expanded to Black History Month in 1976), the prevailing sentiment was that black people had no history. They were little more than the hewers of wood and the drawers of water who, in their insistence upon even basic political rights, comprised an alarming “Negro problem.”
To combat such ignorance and prejudice, Woodson worked relentlessly to compile the rich history of black people. He especially liked to emphasize the role of exceptional African-Americans who made major contributions to American life. At the time, that was a radical idea.
W. Allison Davis (1902-1983) came of age in the generation after Woodson, but he was precisely the type of exceptional black person whom Woodson liked to uphold as evidence of black intelligence, civility and achievement.
Davis was an accomplished anthropologist and a trailblazer who was the first African-American to earn tenure at a predominantly white university – th
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(William) Allison Davis graduated from Williams College with a B.A. degree in 1924, an M.A. from Harvard University in 1925 and a second degree in 1932. In 1942, he attained a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago where he became the first John Dewey Distinguished Service Professor of Education. He was the first black professor to receive tenure in Chicago but had been hired only after Julius Rosenwald offered to cover his salary. He taught there for more than forty years. From 1935 to 1939, he had taught Social Anthropology at Dillard University and for the next three years, held the dual positions as a staff person at the Center for Child Development and head of the department of education at Atlanta University. One of his ten books, Deep South: a Social AnthropologicalStudy of Caste and Class served as reference material in the Supreme Court decision of Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka
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