Title: Overcoming
Description: The author rose from an impoverished Minneapolis ghetto to become one of the city's leading voices for equality. The founding chief executive of the Minneapolis Urban Coalition and a twenty-year member of the city's 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 region's most successful amateur-boxing coach, led a church merger, founded a bank, served on the U.S. Olympic boxing committee, and campaigned as the city's first black mayoral candidate.
Subjects: African American civil rights workers, African Americans, Biography, Boxing trainers, Civil rights, Civil rights workers, History, Race relations, Authors
Places: Minneapolis, Minneapolis (Minn.), Minnesota
People: W. Harry Davis (1923-)
Time periods: 20th century