Fred Davis, charter city council member and black business advocate, dies at 86
Fred L. Davis in front of his insurance Agency in Orange Mound in 2015. Davis was a charter city council member. (Daily Memphian file)
Fred Davis was an early advocate of black-owned business growth even before the city had a majority African American population. He was also on the city council during the 1968 sanitation workers strike.
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