Overcoming: The Autobiography of W. Harry Davis

Overcoming: The Autobiography of W. Harry Davis by Davis, W. Harry. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9781890434526.

W. Harry Davis both lived twentieth-century American civil-rights history and made it. Rising from the impoverished Minneapolis ghetto of his childhood, he became one of his citys leading voices for equality for all. The founding chief executive of the Minneapolis Urban Coalition and a twenty-year member of the citys school board, he was also one of the first black executives at a major Twin Cities corporation. Along the way he overcame polio, became the regions most successful amateur-boxing coach, led a historic church merger, founded a bank, served on the U.S. Olympic boxing committee, and campaigned as the citys first black mayoral candidate.