Henrietta Vinton Davis, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Henrietta Vinton Davis

African-American actor and activist

Date of Birth: 25-Aug-1860

Place of Birth: Baltimore, Maryland, United States

Date of Death: 23-Nov-1941

Profession: actor, stage actor

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Henrietta Vinton Davis (August 25, 1860 – November 23, 1941) was an African-American elocutionist, dramatist, and impersonator.
In addition to being "the premier actor 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 has come to be considered the physical, intellectual, and spiritual link between the abolitionist movement of Frederick Douglass and the African Redemption Movement of the UNIA-ACL and Marcus Garvey, the founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association.
At the first international UNIA convention in 1920, she was elected as International Organizer.
She had increasingly responsible roles and, after Garvey was deported to Jamaica in 1927, Davis was elected and served as President-General of the UNIA, Inc.
from 1934-1940.