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In between his college years of 1927 and 1929, Davis spent time in Chicago where he was a contributor for several publications: the ''Chicago Evening Bulletin'', the ''Chicago Whip'', and the ''Gary American''.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=19RJKnSUMOgC&pg=PR15 Writings of Frank Marshall Davis: A Voice of the Black Press]</ref>  After failing to find the success he desired, he returned to his studies.

In between his college years of 1927 and 1929, Davis spent time in Chicago where he was a contributor for several publications: the ''Chicago Evening Bulletin'', the ''Chicago Whip'', and the ''Gary American''.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=19RJKnSUMOgC&pg=PR15 Writings of Frank Marshall Davis: A Voice of the Black Press]</ref>  After failing to find the success he desired, he returned to his studies.

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]]'', August 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]]'', August 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]](WPA) 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]](WPA) 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>

{{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==

In his column of August 3, 1950 Davis devoted considerable space in quoting from ''The Situation in Asia'' by [[Owen Lattimore]] in an effort to show that [[North Korea]]ns supported their government more than the people of [[South Korea]].<ref>FBI file Frank Marshall Davis, Report of SAC W. Knapp, 11/13/50, v.4 pp. 28-46 pdf.</ref>

In his column of August 3, 1950 Davis devoted considerable space in quoting from ''The Situation in Asia'' by [[Owen Lattimore]] in an effort to show that [[North Korea]]ns supported their government more than the people of [[South Korea]].<ref>FBI file Frank Marshall Davis, Report of SAC W. Knapp, 11/13/50, v.4 pp. 28-46 pdf.</ref>

In his ''Honolulu Record'' columns Davis regularly condemned the [[Marshall Plan]], the [[Truman Doctrine]], the [[North Atlantic Treaty Organization|North Atlantic Treaty]] and routinely sung the praises of [[Kim Il Sung]]'s [[North Korea]].

In his ''Honolulu Record'' columns Davis regularly condemned the [[Marshall Plan]], the [[Truman Doctrine]], the [[North Atlantic Treaty Organization|North Atlantic Treaty]] and routinely sung the praises of [[Kim Il Sung]]'s North Korea.

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

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

===Commitment to Communism===

===Commitment to Communism===

There is no evidence Davis ever abandoned his commitment to what [[Allen Weinstein]] described as "a murderous and discredited ideology."  In 1999 it was reported 3 million [[North Korea]]ns starved to death<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/281132.stm North Korea 'loses 3 million to famine'], [[BBC]], February 17, 1999.</ref> in the Socialist workers paradise Davis so cherished while others were eating grass to survive.<ref>{{Citation

There is no evidence Davis ever abandoned his commitment to what [[Allen Weinstein]] described as "a murderous and discredited ideology."  In 1999 it was reported 3 million North Koreans starved to death<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/281132.stm North Korea 'loses 3 million to famine'], [[BBC]], February 17, 1999.</ref> in the Socialist workers paradise Davis so cherished while others were eating grass to survive.<ref>{{Citation

|title = Starved N Koreans eating grass to survive

|title = Starved N Koreans eating grass to survive

|newspaper = [[CNN]]

|newspaper = [[CNN]]