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==Communist activities in Chicago==

==Communist activities in Chicago==

[[File:Jarrett-and-henry-wallace1.jpg|thumb|255px|left|Vice President [[Henry Wallace]] (left) was booted off the ticket by FDR in 1944 when questions about his mental capacity arose; he ran against his replacement, [[Harry S. Truman]] with strong [[CPUSA]] backing in 1948. [[Vernon Jarrett]] (right) ran unsucessfully for U.S. Congress the same year.  Jarrett and Davis were active together in Chicago Communist Party politics.  Jarrett's daughter-in-law, [[Valerie Jarrett]], is the Senior Advisor to [[President Obama]] for Intergovernmental Affairs. [http://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/staff/valerie_jarrett/] ]]

[[File:Jarrett-and-henry-wallace1.jpg|thumb|255px|left|Vice President [[Henry Wallace]] (left) was booted off the ticket by FDR in 1944 when questions about his mental capacity arose; he ran against his replacement, [[Harry S. Truman]] with strong [[CPUSA]] backing in 1948. [[Vernon Jarrett]] (right) ran unsucessfully for U.S. Congress the same year.  Jarrett and Davis were active together in Chicago Communist Party politics.  Jarrett's daughter-in-law, [[Valerie Jarrett]], is the Senior Advisor to [[President Obama]] for Intergovernmental Affairs. [http://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/staff/valerie_jarrett/] ]]

Davis was involved in Chicago's South Side Community Art Center, "a meeting place for young African American writers and artists during the 1940s".<ref>[http://www.newberry.org/outspoken/exhibit/objectlist_section2.html "Outspoken," A Newberry Library and Chicago Historical Society Exhibit]</ref>  An outgrowth of the [[New Deal]] Federal Art Project, the Art Center was a hangout for the "Culture Group,"<ref>FBI file Frank Marshall Davis, v.4 pp.78-81 pdf.</ref> a circle of Communist Party members and sympathisers including [[Richard Wright]], Margaret Burroughs, Marion Perkins and Arna Bontemps.  Another center regular was a young journalist named [[Vernon Jarrett]]. Davis and Jarrett worked together on the black run newspaper, the ''Chicago Defender''.<ref>[http://newzeal.blogspot.com/2008/10/obama-file-38-barack-obama-frank.html Obama File 38], Trevor Louden, Barack Obama, October 17, 2008.</ref>

Davis was involved in Chicago's South Side Community Art Center, "a meeting place for young African American writers and artists during the 1940s".<ref>[http://www.newberry.org/outspoken/exhibit/objectlist_section2.html "Outspoken," A Newberry Library and Chicago Historical Society Exhibit]</ref>  An outgrowth of the [[New Deal]] Federal Art Project, the Art Center was a hangout for the "Culture Group,"<ref>FBI file Frank Marshall Davis, v.4 pp.78-81 pdf.</ref> a circle of Communist Party members and sympathisers including [[Richard Wright]], Margaret Burroughs, Marion Perkins and Arna Bontemps.  Another center regular was a young journalist named [[Vernon Jarrett]]. Davis and Jarrett worked together on the black run newspaper, the ''Chicago Defender''.<ref>[http://newzeal.blogspot.com/2008/10/obama-file-38-barack-obama-frank.html Obama File 38], Trevor Louden, Barack Obama, October 17, 2008.</ref>  Even throughout World War II, when the CPUSA "soft-pedaled" the fight against racism the editorial policies of the ''Defender'' were virtually indistinguishable from those of the ''Daily Worker''.<ref>[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2838/is_1_35/ai_74410624/?tag=content;col1 Popular Fronts: Chicago and American Cultural Politics, 1935-46], African American Review, Spring, 2001 by Barbara Foley.</ref>

According to Davis he met [[CPUSA]] Central Committeeman [[Harry Bridges]] in 1945 while on the faculty of the [[Abraham Lincoln School]]<ref>Frank Marshall Davis, [http://books.google.com/books?id=BabHjAEzkdwC&dq=Frank+Marshall+Davis,+Livin'+the+Blues,+Memoirs+of+a+Black+Journalist+and+Poet,+University+of+Wisconsin+Press,+Madison,+1992&printsec=frontcover&source=bn&hl=en&ei=EHN_Supoj4y0A4qwje8K&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4#v=onepage&q=&f=false ''Livin' the Blues, Memoirs of a Black Journalist and Poet'',] University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, 1992, p 311.</ref> in Chicago, cited as a [[subversive]] organization by U.S. Attorney General [[Tom Clark]]<ref>[http://www.archive.org/stream/guidetosubversiv1951aunit/guidetosubversiv1951aunit_djvu.txt Guide to subversive organizations and publications (and appendix) (1951)] United States. Congress. [[House Committee on Un-American Activities]]. Washington U.S. Govt. Print. Office.  "1. Cited as an adjunct of the Communist Party. (Attorney General Tom Clark, letter to Loyalty Review Board, released December 4, 1947.) 2. Successor of the Workers School as a "Communist educational medium" in Chicago. (Special Committee on Un-American Activities, Report, March 29, 1944, V- 82.) 3. Cited as a "Communist institution." (California Committee on Un-American Activities, Report,  

According to Davis he met [[CPUSA]] Central Committeeman [[Harry Bridges]] in 1945 while on the faculty of the [[Abraham Lincoln School]]<ref>Frank Marshall Davis, [http://books.google.com/books?id=BabHjAEzkdwC&dq=Frank+Marshall+Davis,+Livin'+the+Blues,+Memoirs+of+a+Black+Journalist+and+Poet,+University+of+Wisconsin+Press,+Madison,+1992&printsec=frontcover&source=bn&hl=en&ei=EHN_Supoj4y0A4qwje8K&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4#v=onepage&q=&f=false ''Livin' the Blues, Memoirs of a Black Journalist and Poet'',] University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, 1992, p 311.</ref> in Chicago, cited as a [[subversive]] organization by U.S. Attorney General [[Tom Clark]]<ref>[http://www.archive.org/stream/guidetosubversiv1951aunit/guidetosubversiv1951aunit_djvu.txt Guide to subversive organizations and publications (and appendix) (1951)] United States. Congress. [[House Committee on Un-American Activities]]. Washington U.S. Govt. Print. Office.  "1. Cited as an adjunct of the Communist Party. (Attorney General Tom Clark, letter to Loyalty Review Board, released December 4, 1947.) 2. Successor of the Workers School as a "Communist educational medium" in Chicago. (Special Committee on Un-American Activities, Report, March 29, 1944, V- 82.) 3. Cited as a "Communist institution." (California Committee on Un-American Activities, Report,