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  1. 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.

  2. President Obama met Frank Marshall Davis four decades ago and saw Davis 10 to 15 times as a teenager.

  3. It presents his conspiracy theory that U.S. President Barack Obama's biological father was Frank Marshall Davis, an American poet and labor activist in Chicago and Hawaii, rather than Barack Obama Sr. The film claims that Davis, who had been a closet member of the Communist Party USA, influenced Obama's ideology, a claim disputed by Obama ...

  4. Frank Marshall Davis. 1905–1987. 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.

  5. Oct 10, 2007 · Frank Marshall Davis rose to prominence as a poet and journalist during the Depression and the Second World War. Prior to his departure for the Territory of Hawaii in 1948, he found himself the subject of adulation by many readers but also the target of careful scrutiny by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the House Un-American Activities ...

  6. Oct 15, 2012 · Obama's real dad is Frank Marshall Davis, a black newspaper editor, labor activist, and alleged communist. Obama's maternal grandfather convinced Obama Sr. to marry his daughter, Stanley Ann...

  7. 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.

  8. 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 ...

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  9. 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

  10. 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.

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