The John P. Davis Collection for Brazilian, African and African American Studies

The John P. Davis Collection is a digital publishing initiative that provides Internet access to texts, images, and audio files related to John P. Davis and his work as a civil rights attorney and founding publisher of the first African American national magazine Our World. It also documents his involvement with the National Negro Congress, the NAACP, the Negro Industrial League, and Joint Committee on National Recovery, the Pittsburgh Courier, The Crisis, Our World Magazine, and the American Negro Reference Book.

Currently the John P. Davis Collection includes ten thematic collections of books, diaries, manuscripts, artifacts, letters, oral history interviews, and journals. Michelle DeMond Davis sponsors the John P. Davis Collection and the texts and materials come primarily from her family holdings. The John P. Davis Collection is committed to the long-term availability of these collections and their online records. A Board of Advisors guides the development of this digital library.