Garry Davis
| Garry Davis | |
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| Born |
Sol Gareth Davis July 27, 1921 Bar Harbor, Maine, U.S. |
| Died | July 24, 2013 (aged 91) South Burlington, Vermont, U.S. |
| Citizenship | United States (1921-1948) None (1948-2013) |
| Alma mater |
Carnegie Mellon University East West University |
| Occupation | Peace and world citizenship activist |
| Organization | International Registry of World Citizens World Service Authority |
| Known for |
World citizenship concept worldwide popularization World Passport |
| Children | Kristina Starr Davis Troy Davis Athena Davis Kim Davis |
Sol Gareth "Garry" Davis (July 27, 1921 – July 24, 2013) was an international peace activist who created the World Passport, a travel document originally based on Article 13(2), Universal Declaration of Human Rights and on the concept of world citizenship. Previously Davis worked as a Broadway stage actor and served as an American bomber pilot in World War II. He was a devoted World Federalist, although a consistent critic of the World Federalist Movement.
Davis was born in Bar Harbor, Maine (U.S.), to Meyer and Hilda (née Emery) Davis. He graduated from The Episcopal Academy in 1940 and attended the Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie Mellon University).
A former Broadway actor Davis served in the U.S. Army during the Second World War as a B-17 bomber pilot in the 8th Air Force. Pained by his own brother's war death and at the death he caused other families by bombing the city of Brandenburg in World War II, and fearful that nuclear war could terminate humanity, Davis gave up national citizenship in 1948 and declared himself a "citizen of the world". He mentioned Henry Martyn Noel, who had renounced a few months earlier, as one of his inspirations.
In France, his "Garry Davis Council of Solidarity" support committee was co-founded by writers Albert Camus and André Gide and Emmaus movement originator Abbé Pierre, as well as Robert Sarrazac, a former leader of the French Résistance who joined Davis in founding the Mundialization World Cities movement.
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