Horace B. Davis.

About Horace B. Davis

Horace Bancroft Davis was an American leftist journalist and academic. Davis was born in 1898 in Newport, Rhode Island and began studies at Harvard University prior to the beginning of World War I. He refused to serve in the war and obtained conscientious objector status. Instead of fighting, he quit Harvard and volunteered with the recently formed American Friends Service Committee. Returning to Harvard, he graduated with a B.A. in 1921 and then worked as a steelworker. Before returning to receive his Ph.D. Davis taught at Southwestern College in Memphis, Tennessee from 1929 to 1930 and then wrote for the labor news agency Federated Press before resuming school. In 1934, he graduated from Columbia University with a Ph.D.