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Frank Marshall Davis (December 31, 1905 – July 26, 1987) was an American journalist, poet, political and labor movement activist, and businessman. Davis began his career writing for African American newspapers in Chicago.
President Obama met Frank Marshall Davis four decades ago and saw Davis 10 to 15 times as a teenager.
Aug 20, 2012 · In the 1970s, amid this dangerous political theater, Frank Marshall Davis came into Barack Obama's life.Aided by access to explosive declassified FBI files, Soviet archives, and Davis's original newspaper columns, Paul Kengor explores how Obama sought out Davis and how Davis found in Obama an impressionable young man, one susceptible to Davis's ...
- Paul Kengor Ph.D.
Aug 20, 2012 · Kengor's "The Communist" is a political biography of Frank Marshall Davis, a man who wrote highly left-leaning, pro-soviet newspaper articles during his life and has now been identified as an overt Marxist-Leninist of Stalinist stripe.
- Paul Kengor Ph.D.
Frank Marshall Davis's poetry "not only questioned social ills in his own time but also inspired Blacks in the politically charged 1960s," according to John Edgar Tidwell in the Dictionary of Literary Biography.
Aided by access to explosive declassified FBI files, Soviet archives, and Davis's original newspaper columns, Paul Kengor explores how Obama sought out Davis and how Davis found in Obama an impressionable young man, one susceptible to Davis's worldview that opposed American policy and traditional values while praising communist regimes.
During the Depression and World War II, Frank Marshall Davis was arguably one of the most distinctive poetic voices confronting W. E. B Du Bois's profound metaphor of African American double consciousness.
Frank Marshall Davis - The Academy of American Poets is the largest membership-based nonprofit organization fostering an appreciation for contemporary poetry and supporting American poets. Born in 1905 in Arkansas City, poet Frank Marshall Davis used his poetry to critique racism
Frank Marshall Davis distinguished himself as a top poet and journalist during the 1930s and 40s, and produced a considerable body of work that influenced generations of poets. He worked at a series of newspapers, including as executive editor of the labor weekly Chicago Star, which he co-founded.
The speaker in his “ Frank Marshall Davis: Writer ” declared: I was a weaver of jagged words. A warbler of garbled tunes. A singer of savage songs.
