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Edmond Davis is the Founder of Black Aviators of Arkansas, A "sole Proprietorship" entity that will be groomed into a Non-profit organization (501c3) by 2010. The purpose of Black Aviators of Arkansas is to promote aviation education, to preserved and displays the history of African-Americans in aeronautics from Arkansas. Black Aviators of Arkansas will evolve into a series of books that will highlight the Arkansas African-American experience in this field. Future projects include a documentary, a coloring book, an Arkansas Tuskegee Airmen Museum, and biographies. Black Aviators will become the largest repository of African-American aviation history in the State of Arkansas and possibly the region. Edmond Davis is a historian, motivational speaker, and author originally from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He has lived in Northern Louisiana throughout the undergraduate and graduate level matriculation. He currently resides in Little Rock, Arkansas. Edmond Davis possesses a Bachelor's Degree in History and Geography and a Master's Degree in History with an emphasis on Slavery, U.S. History since 1877 and the African-American Experience. Davis has just completed the book entitled, "Black Aviators of Arkansas: The Documented Original Tuskegee Airmen and other early African-American Pioneers of Flight" in the fall of 2009." Slated for 2010 is the book entitled, "Airkansan: The Legacy of Milton Crenchaw ." Mr. Davis is the author of several articles. His latest entry is in the Encyclopedia of Arkansas History & Culture under Milton Pitts Crenchaw & Arkansas Original Tuskegee Airmen: 1940-1946 (AOTA). In the winter of 2008 Davis was awarded a grant by the Black History Commission of Arkansas to further research the airmen of Arkansas. This information will be marketed and used by all levels of education in the state of Arkansas. He has taught at the University of Arkansas Little Rock (UALR), Pulaski Technical College ¤tly at Arkansas Baptist College. According to sources the top inspiration in his life has been his father James Edmond Davis jr. (1941-2002). Ed Davis is also a proud member of Groove Phi Groove Social Fellowship Incorporated where he is the current National Vice Chair of the History Committee and a charter member of the Central Arkansas Graduate Chapter, a member Grambling State University Alumni Association (Central Arkansas Chapter), The Louisiana Tech University Alumni Association, & has worked closely with the Judge Robert Decatur Chapter (Arkansas) of the Tuskegee Airmen Incorporated. Edmond is a co-founding/charter member of the MYTHSLAYERS Motor Cycle club, a socially responsible motorcycle organization in Little Rock that promotes positive images of male role-models by way of busting urban and stereotypical myths in the community. Edmond Davis recently was a panelist on the campus of Philander Smith College called, "The Black Male initiative" and it was sponsored by the "SAY IT LOUD" program and its founder the multi-talented author & editor Mr. Patrick Oliver. Edmond Davis is also a member of the Little Rock Chapter of the Black Male Development Symposium. Edmond Davis has been a panelist for the 2007 Delta Sigma Theta "Delta Presents" Personal Development Program in December 2007. On May 25, 2008 Edmond Davis was the keynote speaker for the 12th Operation "Skyhook" sponsored by the Black Pilots of America (BPA Inc.) in Pine Bluff, Arkansas. Edmond Davis was featured on page 35 of the winter edition of LOVE&LIFE Magazine. On February 26, 2009, Davis along with Milton Crenchaw gave presentations on the Tuskegee Airmen in Pocahontas, Arkansas at Black River Technical College and the Eddie Mae Herron Cultural Center. In June 2008, Davis spoke at the Arkansas Historic Museum for their 2008 "Profiles in Black Arkansas History" program. He is a member of the Arkansas Historical Association and the Pulaski County Historical Society. Davis is the first president of the Milton P. Crenchaw Aviation Training Academy (MPCATA Inc) in Sherrill, Arkansas. The Non-Profit aviation school is located on the grounds of Mr. Willie C. Smith of Smith's International Airport. Professor Davis was also a presenter at the 63rd Annual State NAACP Convention of Arkansas on September 13Th, 2008. Davis was one of several moderators for the Arkansas Black History Quiz bowl competition this past February 2009 at the historic Mosaic Templar's Cultural Center in downtown Little Rock. He gave a historical presentation for the NAACP at the "Rebirth Celebration of Juneteenth" festival on Ninth Street on June, 20 2009. Davis also holds seats as a Board of Directors member for both The Weekend Theater (TWT) and the Aerospace Education Center (AEC).
