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==Background==

==Background==

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, 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>  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>

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>  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>