Charlie Davis (basketball)
Charles Lawrence Davis is best known for being an outstanding college basketball player for Wake Forest University. From New york City, he was the second African American player in Wake Forest's history. Davis was the 1971 Atlantic Coast Conference Men's Basketball Player of the Year, and the first black player to win the award.
Davis garnered first-team All-ACC honors for three years in a row, and was an eighth-round NBA draft pick by the Cleveland Cavaliers in 1971.
