Henrietta Vinton Davis

Biography

Henrietta Vinton Davis (August 25, 1860 – November 23, 1941) was an elocutionist, dramatist, and impersonator. In addition to being "the premier actress of all nineteenth-century black performers on the dramatic stage", Davis was proclaimed by Marcus Garvey to be the "greatest woman of the Negro race today". Davis worked with Garvey, who was the founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA), in several capacities.

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