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Frank Marshall Davis

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Donates to People For the American Way, Oxfam America

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Frank Marshall Davis, Publisher and Poet

 

Jazz poet.

Lynching survivor.

Journalist.

Kansan.

Hawaiian.

Mentor to a great American leader. This lens focuses on the life and work of Frank Marshall Davis. It's our intention to provide a few that's not obscured by a warped political agenda.

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Links to Information On Frank Marshall Davis 

The poet and publisher Frank Marshall Davis on the web

The Obama Controversy
Some people are trying to make the childhood conversations Barack Obama had with Frank Marshall Davis into a big controversy. Read this article to see just how silly these assertions are.
Frank Marshall Davis On Poets.org
A summary of the life and work of Frank Marshall Davis from the Acacdemy of American Poets
Biography from University of Hawaii
A biography of Frank Marshall Davis from the University of Hawaii
On the African American Registry
On Frank Marshall Davis, from the African American Registry
Biography
Biography of Frank Marshall Davis
Four Glimpses of Night
Four Glimpses of Night - a poem by Frank Marshall Davis
The Pesky Truth About Frank Marshall Davis and Barack Obama
Did Frank Marshall Davis make Barack Obama into a raging Communist? The truth is rather inconvenient, but for who?

Barack Obama and Frank Marshall Davis 

Some call it controversy. Some call the controversy foolishness.

Let's be up front about this: Frank Marshall Davis is getting an increasing amount of attention because of someone he met way back in the 1970s - Barack Obama. Barack Obama talked with Frank Marshall Davis a few times, when Obama was between the ages of ten and eighteen years old. The two both lived in Hawaii at the time, and their paths crossed.

They talked about poetry and about careers. Some say that means that Frank Marshall Davis converted Barack Obama into full red blooded Communism.

Sigh.

Read a rational analysis of this supposed controversy.

The Importance of Frank Marshall Davis 

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Frank Marshall Davis Books 

Books of material by and about Frank Marshall Davis

Biography - Davis, Frank Marshall (1905-1987): An article from: Contemporary Authors Online

Amazon Price: $9.95 (as of 07/25/2008)

Black Moods: Collected Poems / Frank Marshall Davis ; Edited by John Edgar Tidwell.

Amazon Price: (as of 07/25/2008)

Through sepia eyes: [four poems]

Amazon Price: (as of 07/25/2008)

Writings of Frank Marshall Davis: A Voice of the Black Press

Amazon Price: $40.00 (as of 07/25/2008)

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Cliff Kincaid is ratcheting up his disinformation campaign. Now he is claiming, without a shred of evidence, that Davis was a Stalinist and a lifelong member of the Communist Party, and that Davis decided to remain a member despite the Nazi-Soviet non-aggression pact of 1939. This new claim goes far beyond the Davis-Obama disinformation on the A.I.M. website. All available evidence indicates that Davis actually rejected communism in the 1930s. The A.I.M. website itself notes evidence that Davis joined the Party during WWII, although Davis "continued to publish in CPUSA-supported publications after the 1939 Hitler-Stalin non-aggression pact."

Now, in the perverted logic of their disinformation machine, "continuing to publish" is proof that Davis was a lifelong member of the Communist Party and a Stalinist? Please!

Want proof of their disinformation? Ask Kincaid for evidence that Davis was a lifelong member of the Communist Party USA!

Posted June 20, 2008

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