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Michael DeMond Davis
Mike Davis an award winning journalist co-authored the Thurgood Marshall Biography. As a student at Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia and a member of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), he worked closely with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr, and was a leader of the student sit-in movement. He was arrested many times in Atlanta's bus stations and department stores.
Ralph McGill, publisher of the Atlanta Constitution hired Davis as the paper's first African American reporter. Ralph McGill became his mentor and his friend.
Davis went on to Vietnam as the Afro-American Newspapers war correspondent. During the 18 months in Vietnam, he reported on combat activities of black service people in the Afro's 13-state circulation area. When he returned home he joined the Baltimore Evening Sun Papers. He was a staff member of the San Diego Union, where he covered Governor Jerry Brown, the now-defunct Washington Star, and was an editor of NBC television news in Washington, D.C.
His work has been nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, and he received several Front Page Awards from the American Newspaper Guild. The NAACP gave him an award for his coverage of Vietnam. Davis authored Black American Women in Olympic Track and Field.
Michael DeMond Davis died November 13, 2003
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