Personal Life
Davis was married to Thelma Boyd, his first wife, for 13 years. For a time while Davis worked in Chicago, Thelma lived and worked in Atlanta and later in Washington DC.
In 1946, he married Helen (nee Canfield), a white woman that he had met in one of his classes who was 18 years younger than him. Davis and Canfield divorced in 1970.
Davis had a son, Mark, and four daughters Lynn, Beth, Jeanne and Jill.
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