George Davis's Page

My general profile and major accomplishments

I worked in Dalles County, Alabama with Jonn Love and Worth Long. It was in Jail in Selma that we formed TIAL. This when I began to develop my organizational abilities.

• Worked for four years as a field worker for a Civil Rights Organization called the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
• College student and civil rights worker in the 60's,
• Founder and first program director of the Tuskegee Institute Advancement League.
• Teaches a class at Tufts University entitled Black Power: Student Civil Rights Movements
• Works with at risk youth that are caught up in the Juvenile Justice System."

Education
Masters in Education from Tuskegee University. Have taught Social Studies and Afro-American History at both the secondary and collegiate levels.

Profession
• Teach a class at Tufts University entitled Black Power: Student Civil Rights Movements
• Work with at risk youth that are caught up in the Juvenile Justice System."



Organizations and memberships
• Worked for four years as a field worker for a Civil Rights Organization called the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
• Founder and first program director of the Tuskegee Institute Advancement League


A signature quote

There are Three essential things that the movement taught me that I use today.
1. THE POWER OF COLLECTIVE ACTION
2. LOOK AT EVERYBODY STRAIGHT ACROSS.DON'T LOOK UP TO NOBODY AND DON'T LOOK DOWN ON NOBODY
3. I DO NOT ENTERTAIN HOW NOT OR WHY NOT ONLY HOW WE CAN.


My goal, in one sentence
Collective Action!


Source: http://www.crmvet.org/vet/davisge.htm

MORE ABOUT ME

I “got into the student movement and immediately became an activist. After a demonstration insisting on freedom of speech”, I “invited Malcom X to Tuskegee to speak. By the time Malcom X arrived” I was in jail in Selma with Martin Luther King. “We called Dr. King the Lord – The Lord says we’ve got to do this or that.” In the jail, we formed the Tuskegee Institute of Advancement League. (TIAL) I was involved in SNCC & TIAL, Alabama, Mississippi, 1962-68.

“There were more marches and more arrests.” Along with some others I “tried to present a petition to George Wallace, the governor,” and was “arrested in Montgomery for refusing to obey police officers”. We had been “protesting the beatings of marchers by state troopers. This meant Wallace couldn’t put Dr. King and the marchers in them.” Wallace had no choice but to allow Dr. King and the marchers, who had been waiting with him after their trek from Selma, to enter Montgomery, where by then” I was “locked up, charged with obstruction.”

I met Jimmy Carter in September of 1979 when he visited Boston on his presidential campaign. I was working at the Alma Lewis School of Fine Arts. When Carter discovered that I had been to Tuskegee, we talked about peanut farming.”

Source: “My Other Life”
By Paul Theroux