Marianna W. Davis


Marianna White Davis was a professor and author in the United States. She wrote Contributions of Black Women in American History.
She was born in north Philadelphia to Rev. Albert McNeil White, who served in the army, and Laura Bowman White, a teacher. In 1931 the family moved back to Columbia, South Carolina. She graduated from Wilkinson High School in 1945, South Carolina State College in 1949, New York University in 1952, and received her doctorate from Boston University.
She was a professor of English at Benedict College in Columbia, South Carolina. She was an organizer of the Black Caucus of the National Council of Teachers of English. She organized and produced the Black History Teleconference. She was a member of the United Methodist Church.
She married Clifton E. Davis. Kenneth Renay Davis Sr. was her son.
She died September 11, 2021, aged 92 and was posthumously recognised by the South Carolina House of Representatives in December of the same year by resolution bill 4625.

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