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Frank Marshall Davis was born in Arkansas City, Kansas December 31, 1905.  Davis reported he had nine years of elementary school, five years of high school, one year at Friends University, [[Wichita]] Kansaas, three and half years at Kansas State College, Manhattan, Kansas, from September 1924 to February 1927, and from September 1929 to June 1930, studying journalism.   

Frank Marshall Davis was born in Arkansas City, Kansas December 31, 1905.  Davis reported he had nine years of elementary school, five years of high school, one year at Friends University, [[Wichita]] Kansaas, three and half years at Kansas State College, Manhattan, Kansas, from September 1924 to February 1927, and from September 1929 to June 1930, studying journalism.   

After College Davis went to [[Atlanta]], [[Georgia]] and became Managing Editor of the ''Atlanta Daily World'' in 1931. Davis became interested in the [[Communist party]] in 1931 during the [[Scottsboro case]].<ref>FBI file Frank Marshall Davis, v.4, p. 29 & 30 pdf; Report of SAC Leo Brenneisen, 9/9/63, FBI file Frank Marshall Davis, v.2 pps. 55-59 pdf.</ref>  In 1934, he again moved to Chicago, where he served as Executive Editor of Claude Barnett's Associated Negro Press from 1935-1947.<ref>[http://mts.lib.uchicago.edu/collections/findingaids/davis.html The Frank Marshall Davis Collection, 1935-1987]</ref>  In 1936 Davis was listed as a contributing editor to the ''Spokesman'', the official organ of the Youth Section of the [[National Negro Congress]], a [[Communist front]] organization.<ref>''[[Daily Worker]]'', Augst 12 1936, cited in Report prepared from the files of the [[House Committee on Un-American Activities]] for Senator William E. Jenner, Chairman of the [[Senate Subcommittee on Internal Security]], October 20, 1953, [http://www.usasurvival.org/docs/Frank_Marshall_Davis_5.pdf FBI file Frank Marshall Davis, v.5 pp.9-11] pdf.</ref>  Davis was regarded as a primary outlet of CPUSA "for the distribution of news and propaganda which the [[Earl Browder#Election of 1944|CPA]] wishes to get out to the Negro people.  As Executive Editor of the Associated Negro Press Davis is in a position to determine what news releases shall be made by the Associated Negro Press to the various numbers of newspapers to whom it supplies news."  Davis also was the Executive Editor of the communist publication the ''[[Chicago Star]]''.<ref>[http://www.archive.org/stream/testimonyofwalte1947unit#page/35/mode/1up Testimony of Walter S. Steele regarding Communist activities in the United States]. Hearings before the Committee on Un-American Activities, House of Representatives, Eightieth Congress, first session, on H. R. 1884 and H. R. 2122, bills to curb or outlaw the Communist Party in the United States. Public law 601 (section 121, subsection Q (2) July 21, 1947, page 35.</ref>  

After College Davis went to [[Atlanta]], [[Georgia]] and became Managing Editor of the ''Atlanta Daily World'' in 1931. Davis became interested in the [[Communist party]] in 1931 during the [[Scottsboro case]].<ref>FBI file Frank Marshall Davis, v.4, p. 29 & 30 pdf; Report of SAC Leo Brenneisen, 9/9/63, FBI file Frank Marshall Davis, v.2 pps. 55-59 pdf.</ref>  In 1934, he again moved to Chicago, where he served as Executive Editor of Claude Barnett's Associated Negro Press from 1935-1947.<ref>[http://mts.lib.uchicago.edu/collections/findingaids/davis.html The Frank Marshall Davis Collection, 1935-1987]</ref>  In 1936 Davis was listed as a contributing editor to the ''Spokesman'', the official organ of the Youth Section of the [[National Negro Congress]], a [[Communist front]] organization.<ref>''[[Daily Worker]]'', Augst 12 1936, cited in Report prepared from the files of the [[House Committee on Un-American Activities]] for Senator William E. Jenner, Chairman of the [[Senate Subcommittee on Internal Security]], October 20, 1953, [http://www.usasurvival.org/docs/Frank_Marshall_Davis_5.pdf FBI file Frank Marshall Davis, v.5 pp.9-11] pdf.</ref>  Davis was regarded as a primary outlet of CPUSA "for the distribution of news and propaganda which the [[Earl Browder#Election of 1944|CPA]] wishes to get out to the Negro people.  As Executive Editor of the Associated Negro Press Davis is in a position to determine what news releases shall be made by the Associated Negro Press to the various numbers of newspapers to whom it supplies news."  Davis also was the Executive Editor of the communist publication the ''[[Chicago Star]]''.<ref>[http://www.archive.org/stream/testimonyofwalte1947unit#page/35/mode/1up Testimony of Walter S. Steele regarding Communist activities in the United States]. Hearings before the Committee on Un-American Activities, House of Representatives, Eightieth Congress, first session, on H. R. 1884 and H. R. 2122, bills to curb or outlaw the Communist Party in the United States. Public law 601 (section 121, subsection Q (2) July 21, 1947, page 35).</ref>  

His poetry and writings became popular during the Harlem Renaissance and during the African American Arts Movement in the 1960s and 1970s.<ref>[http://www.kshs.org/portraits/davis_frank.htm Frank Marshall Davis] Kansas State Historical Society.</ref>  Davis met [[Langston Hughes]], [[Richard Wright]], and other leading black writers while participating in the federal [[Works Progress Administration]] Writers' Project and other organizations.<ref>[http://biography.jrank.org/pages/2342/Davis-Frank-Marshall.html Frank Marshall Davis Biography - Victim of Attempted Lynching, Worked for Associated Negro Press, Moved to Hawaii, Selected works]</ref>

His poetry and writings became popular during the Harlem Renaissance and during the African American Arts Movement in the 1960s and 1970s.<ref>[http://www.kshs.org/portraits/davis_frank.htm Frank Marshall Davis] Kansas State Historical Society.</ref>  Davis met [[Langston Hughes]], [[Richard Wright]], and other leading black writers while participating in the federal [[Works Progress Administration]] Writers' Project and other organizations.<ref>[http://biography.jrank.org/pages/2342/Davis-Frank-Marshall.html Frank Marshall Davis Biography - Victim of Attempted Lynching, Worked for Associated Negro Press, Moved to Hawaii, Selected works]</ref>

Upon Davis's assignment to Hawaii he met with ILWU regional director Jack Hall,<ref>Frank Marshall Davis: Black Labor Activist and Outsider Journalist: Kathryn Waddell Takara, Ph.D.</ref><ref>[http://www.aim.org/aim-report/the-frank-marshall-davis-network/ ''The Frank Marshall Davis Network,''] By Andrew Walden, AIM Report, September 1, 2008.</ref><ref>[http://archives.starbulletin.com/1999/09/13/news/story7.html Obituary Jack Wayne Hall], ''Honolulu Star-Bulletin'', September 13, 1999.</ref> convicted under the [[Smith Act]] for conspiracy to overthrow the United States Government.  The ILWU controlled the ''Honolulu Record''<ref>[http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/07/what_barack_obama_learned_from.html What Barack Obama learned from the Communist Party,] By Andrew Walden, ''American Thinker'', July 8, 2008.</ref><ref>[http://www.archive.org/stream/scopeofsovietact411956unit#page/n248/mode/1up Scope of Soviet activity in the United States.] Hearing before the Subcommittee to Investigate the Administration of the Internal Security Act and Other Internal Security Laws of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Eighty-fourth Congress, second session - Eighty-fifth Congress, first session. Washington, U.S. Govt. Print. Off. (1956), pp. 2679-2681.</ref> and the ILWU Book Club.  Among the authors made available through the ILWU Book Club were [[Saul Alinsky]], [[Howard Fast]], [[Philip S. Foner]], [[Carl Marzani]] and [[Victor Perlo]].   

Upon Davis's assignment to Hawaii he met with ILWU regional director Jack Hall,<ref>Frank Marshall Davis: Black Labor Activist and Outsider Journalist: Kathryn Waddell Takara, Ph.D.</ref><ref>[http://www.aim.org/aim-report/the-frank-marshall-davis-network/ ''The Frank Marshall Davis Network,''] By Andrew Walden, AIM Report, September 1, 2008.</ref><ref>[http://archives.starbulletin.com/1999/09/13/news/story7.html Obituary Jack Wayne Hall], ''Honolulu Star-Bulletin'', September 13, 1999.</ref> convicted under the [[Smith Act]] for conspiracy to overthrow the United States Government.  The ILWU controlled the ''Honolulu Record''<ref>[http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/07/what_barack_obama_learned_from.html What Barack Obama learned from the Communist Party,] By Andrew Walden, ''American Thinker'', July 8, 2008.</ref><ref>[http://www.archive.org/stream/scopeofsovietact411956unit#page/n248/mode/1up Scope of Soviet activity in the United States.] Hearing before the Subcommittee to Investigate the Administration of the Internal Security Act and Other Internal Security Laws of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Eighty-fourth Congress, second session - Eighty-fifth Congress, first session. Washington, U.S. Govt. Print. Off. (1956), pp. 2679-2681.</ref> and the ILWU Book Club.  Among the authors made available through the ILWU Book Club were [[Saul Alinsky]], [[Howard Fast]], [[Philip S. Foner]], [[Carl Marzani]] and [[Victor Perlo]].   

Marzani, like Ariyoshi, was a [[KGB]] agent working in the [[Office of Strategic Services]] during [[World War II]].  Victor Perlo headed the notorious [[Perlo group]]<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=pNwEyL1b6XQC&pg=PA67&dq=perlo%2Bhaynes%2B#v=onepage&q=&f=false ''Early Cold War Spies: The Espionage Trials that Shaped American Politics''] Cambridge Essential Histories, September 2006, pp. 67-71.</ref> of which the full extent of damage done to American [[national security]] may never be known.  Perlo's book, ''American Imperialism'',<ref>[http://www.jstor.org/sici?sici=0020-5850(195201)28%3A1%3C132%3AAI%3E2.0.CO%3B2-4&cookieSet=1 Review], Nancy Balfour, International Affairs (Royal Institute of International Affairs 1944-), Vol. 28, No. 1 (Jan., 1952).</ref> offered through the ILWU Book Club, was used for [[brainwash]]ing American prisoners of war in [[North Korean]] reeducation camps.  Perlo always denied being a communist, claiming he had only been "helping in my humble way to carry out the great [[New Deal]] program under the leadership of [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]]"<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=dIsmm_ZLHcIC&pg=PA128&dq=helping+in+my+humble+way+to+carry+out+the+great+new+deal#v=onepage&q=&f=false ''Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America''] John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr, (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999), pp. 128-129.</ref>  until 1981 when he was appointed to the [[CPUSA]] [[Politburo]] and openly criticized [[CPSU]] General Secretary [[Mikhail Gorbachev]] and [[Russia]]n President [[Boris Yeltsin]] for betraying [[Stalinism]].<ref>[http://mltoday.com/en/the-economic-and-political-crisis-in-the-ussr-146.html ''The Economic and Political Crisis in the USSR'', Victor Perlo] [[Political Affairs]], August 1991.</ref><ref>[http://www.blythe.org/nytransfer-subs/98rad/Lessons_from_Cuba,_then_and_now ''Lessons from Cuba, then and now'', Victor and Ellen Perlo] [[People's Weekly World]], 31 January 1998.</ref><ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20050620045117/http://agitprop.org.au/stopnato/1999112015.php ''War and the US Economy'', Vic Perlo] Political Affairs (US), July 1999.</ref>

Marzani, like Ariyoshi, was a [[KGB]] agent working in the [[Office of Strategic Services]] during [[World War II]].  Victor Perlo headed the notorious [[Perlo group]]<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=pNwEyL1b6XQC&pg=PA67&dq=perlo%2Bhaynes%2B#v=onepage&q=&f=false ''Early Cold War Spies: The Espionage Trials that Shaped American Politics''] Cambridge Essential Histories, September 2006, pp. 67-71.</ref> of which the full extent of damage done to American [[national security]] may never be known.  Perlo's book, ''American Imperialism'',<ref>[http://www.jstor.org/sici?sici=0020-5850(195201)28%3A1%3C132%3AAI%3E2.0.CO%3B2-4&cookieSet=1 Review], Nancy Balfour, International Affairs (Royal Institute of International Affairs 1944-), Vol. 28, No. 1 (Jan., 1952).</ref> offered through the ILWU Book Club, was used for [[brainwash]]ing American prisoners of war in [[North Korean]] reeducation camps.  Perlo always denied being a communist, claiming he had only been "helping in my humble way to carry out the great [[New Deal]] program under the leadership of [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]]"<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=dIsmm_ZLHcIC&pg=PA128&dq=helping+in+my+humble+way+to+carry+out+the+great+new+deal#v=onepage&q=&f=false ''Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America''] John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr, (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999), pp. 128-129.</ref>  until 1981 when he was appointed to the CPUSA [[Politburo]] and openly criticized [[CPSU]] General Secretary [[Mikhail Gorbachev]] and [[Russia]]n President [[Boris Yeltsin]] for betraying [[Stalinism]].<ref>[http://mltoday.com/en/the-economic-and-political-crisis-in-the-ussr-146.html ''The Economic and Political Crisis in the USSR'', Victor Perlo] [[Political Affairs]], August 1991.</ref><ref>[http://www.blythe.org/nytransfer-subs/98rad/Lessons_from_Cuba,_then_and_now ''Lessons from Cuba, then and now'', Victor and Ellen Perlo] [[People's Weekly World]], 31 January 1998.</ref><ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20050620045117/http://agitprop.org.au/stopnato/1999112015.php ''War and the US Economy'', Vic Perlo] Political Affairs (US), July 1999.</ref>

===Hawaii NAACP charter revoked===

===Hawaii NAACP charter revoked===

{{Cquote|Every guy in the ILWU was at one time or another a member of the Communist Party of America. This is where they got their organizational information and how to organize, and how to bring groups together and how to create cells and how to make movements that are undetected by the bosses.}}

{{Cquote|Every guy in the ILWU was at one time or another a member of the Communist Party of America. This is where they got their organizational information and how to organize, and how to bring groups together and how to create cells and how to make movements that are undetected by the bosses.}}

In 1959 Hawaii was admitted to the Union.<ref>http://hawaii.gov/statehood/history</ref>  After Burns captured the governor’s office in 1962 the Democrats created a one-party state unbroken for four decades until the election of [[Republican]] Governor [[Linda Lingle]] in 2002. During those decades in some sessions sat as few as one Republican legislator. In 1976 the Democratic-controlled Hawaii State Legislature passed a resolution honoring Koji Ariyoshi.  Herbert Romerstein,<ref>[http://education-research.org/CSR/romerstein.htm The Education and Research Institute], Washington, DC.</ref><ref>[http://intellit.org/alpha_folder/R_folder/romerstein.html Herbert Romerstein], ''The Literature of Intelligence: A Bibliography of Materials, with Essays, Reviews, and Comments'', J. Ransom Clark Emeritus, Muskingum University, New Concord, Ohio. Published in 2007: J. Ransom Clark, Intelligence and National Security: A Reference Handbook (Westport, CT: Praeger Security International Reference, 2007. [http://www.greenwood.com/psi/book_detail.aspx?sku=C9298]</ref> formerly head of the office to Counter Soviet Disinformation at the United States Information Agency commented, "this was the atmosphere that young [[Barack Obama]] grew up in...We honor Soviet spies."<ref>[http://www.usasurvival.org/docs/Transcript_May_22_edited_version.pdf ''The Stealth Candidate''], Edited Transcript May 22, 2008, Briefing on Barack Obama's Communist Connections Featuring Cliff Kincaid and Herbert Romerstein.  Accuracy in Media.</ref>

In 1959 Hawaii was admitted to the Union.<ref>http://hawaii.gov/statehood/history</ref>  After Burns captured the governor’s office in 1962 the Democrats created a one-party state unbroken for four decades until the election of [[Republican]] Governor [[Linda Lingle]] in 2002. During those decades in some sessions sat as few as one Republican legislator. In 1976 the Democratic-controlled Hawaii State Legislature passed a resolution honoring Koji Ariyoshi.  Herbert Romerstein,<ref>[http://education-research.org/CSR/romerstein.htm The Education and Research Institute], Washington, DC.</ref><ref>[http://intellit.org/alpha_folder/R_folder/romerstein.html Herbert Romerstein], ''The Literature of Intelligence: A Bibliography of Materials, with Essays, Reviews, and Comments'', J. Ransom Clark Emeritus, Muskingum University, New Concord, Ohio. Published in 2007: J. Ransom Clark, Intelligence and National Security: A Reference Handbook (Westport, CT: Praeger Security International Reference, 2007. [http://www.greenwood.com/psi/book_detail.aspx?sku=C9298]</ref> formerly head of the office to Counter Soviet Disinformation at the United States Information Agency commented, "this was the atmosphere that young Barack Obama grew up in...We honor Soviet spies."<ref>[http://www.usasurvival.org/docs/Transcript_May_22_edited_version.pdf ''The Stealth Candidate''], Edited Transcript May 22, 2008, Briefing on Barack Obama's Communist Connections Featuring Cliff Kincaid and Herbert Romerstein.  Accuracy in Media.</ref>

==International affairs==

==International affairs==

==The future of the Communist party and Barack Obama==

==The future of the Communist party and Barack Obama==

After [[Khrushchev|Khrushchev's Secret Speech]] another generation of loyal Communists were again confronted with the enormity of Stalin's crimes.  As [[Ann Coulter]] stated, Sen. [[Joseph McCarthy]] "made it a disgrace to be a Communist."<ref>Coulter, Ann ''Treason:  Liberal Treachery From the Cold War to the War on Terrorism''©2003 Crown Forum, New York, New York, pp. 1-2</ref>  Singer [[Paul Robeson]] remained a lifelong denier of the Stalinist holocaust.  Davis in his 1963 interview with [[FBI]] Special Agent Leo Brenneisen appears to offer some second thoughts about his work for the Soviet Union.  Davis states he would "consort with the devil to gain his end," and his end was the fight against racial discrimination.

After [[Khrushchev|Khrushchev's Secret Speech]] another generation of loyal Communists were again confronted with the enormity of Stalin's crimes.  As [[Ann Coulter]] stated, Sen. [[Joseph McCarthy]] "made it a disgrace to be a Communist."<ref>Coulter, Ann ''Treason:  Liberal Treachery From the Cold War to the War on Terrorism''©2003 Crown Forum, New York, New York, pp. 1-2</ref>  Singer [[Paul Robeson]] remained a lifelong denier of the Stalinist holocaust.  Davis in his 1963 interview with FBI Special Agent Leo Brenneisen appears to offer some second thoughts about his work for the Soviet Union.  Davis states he would "consort with the devil to gain his end," and his end was the fight against racial discrimination.

In [[Barack Obama]]'s ''Dreams from my Father'', the author disguises the identity of an old man named "Frank" whose struggles the author identifies with.<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=HRCHJp-V0QUC&pg=PA97&dq=manipulate+words+so+they+don%27t+mean+anything+anymore#v=onepage&q=manipulate%20words%20so%20they%20don't%20mean%20anything%20anymore&f=false ''Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance''], By Barack Obama, Random House, 2007, pp. 97, 220.</ref>  In 2007 Prof. Gerald Horne outed the identity of "Frank" at a Communist party gathering and published in an article entitled, ''Rethinking the History and Future of the Communist Party'':

In Barack Obama's ''Dreams from my Father'', the author disguises the identity of an old man named "Frank" whose struggles the author identifies with.<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=HRCHJp-V0QUC&pg=PA97&dq=manipulate+words+so+they+don%27t+mean+anything+anymore#v=onepage&q=manipulate%20words%20so%20they%20don't%20mean%20anything%20anymore&f=false ''Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance''], By Barack Obama, Random House, 2007, pp. 97, 220.</ref>  In 2007 Prof. Gerald Horne outed the identity of "Frank" at a Communist party gathering and published in an article entitled, ''Rethinking the History and Future of the Communist Party'':

{{Cquote|At some point in the future, a teacher will add to her syllabus Barack’s memoir and instruct her students to read it alongside Frank Marshall Davis’ equally affecting memoir...when that day comes...a future student will ...examine critically the Frankenstein monsters that US imperialism created in order to subdue Communist parties..."<ref>[http://www.politicalaffairs.net/article/articleview/5047/  Rethinking the History and Future of the Communist Party], By Gerald Horne, ''Political Affairs magazine, March 28, 2007.</ref>}}

{{Cquote|At some point in the future, a teacher will add to her syllabus Barack’s memoir and instruct her students to read it alongside Frank Marshall Davis’ equally affecting memoir...when that day comes...a future student will ...examine critically the Frankenstein monsters that US imperialism created in order to subdue Communist parties..."<ref>[http://www.politicalaffairs.net/article/articleview/5047/  Rethinking the History and Future of the Communist Party], By Gerald Horne, ''Political Affairs magazine, March 28, 2007.</ref>}}