Allison Davis: Forgotten black scholar studied – and faced – structural racism in 1940s America
- Written by David Varel, Postdoctoral Fellow in African-American Studies, Case Western Reserve University
Allison Davis, circa 1965. Courtesy of the Davis family.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...