[1] He co-authored Thurgood Marshall, Warrior at the Bar, Rebel at the Bench, a biography of the Supreme Court justice.
[citation needed] His father, John P. Davis was a graduate of Harvard Law School and a prominent journalist and civil rights lawyer.
The U.S. Congress, in response to John P. Davis's suit, appropriated federal funds to construct the Lucy D. Slowe elementary school directly across the street from his Brookland home in the neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Davis attended the Fieldston school in New York, New York.
Ralph McGill, publisher of the Atlanta Constitution, and Eugene Patterson hired Davis as the paper's first African-American reporter.
During his 18 months in Vietnam, he reported on combat activities of black service people in the Afro's 13-state circulation area.