Davis, Arthur Paul, 1904-1996 (Personal Name)

Brown, S.A. The Negro caravan, c1941.

Davis, A.P. Isaac Watts, 1943: t.p. (Arthur Paul Davis)

The African American national biography, 2008 (Davis, Arthur Paul; b. Nov. 21, 1904, Hampton, Va., d. Apr. 21, 1996, Washington, D.C.; scholar, professor, cultural critic)

African American National Biography, accessed December 12, 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Davis, Arthur Paul; born 21 November 1904 in Hampton, Virginia, United States; essayist, educational reform advocate, educator, print journalist, columnist, book editor / publisher; received a BA degree Philosophy, an MA (1929), and a PhD (1942) from Columbia University (1927), was the second black student to be elected to Phi Beta Kappa; began his teaching career as an instructor of English at North Carolina College in Durham (1927-1928); was a professor of English at Virginia Union University in Richmond (1929 -1944), a professor of graduate English for Hampton Institute Summer School (1943 - 1949), a professor of English at Howard University (1944 - 1969) and a university professor (1969 to 1980), taught the nation's first graduate course in black literature; between 1922 and 1979 he published at least twenty-two cultural commentaries and essays for The Crisis, Journal of Negro Education, Negro Digest, Common Ground, and others; died 21 April 1996 in Washington, District of Columbia, United States)