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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."

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>

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,  

1948, pp. 95 and 120.)"</ref> and again under Executive Order 10450.<ref>[http://www.usasurvival.org/docs/davis.FBI.File.pdf FBI file Frank Marshall Davis], Summary file edited by Cliff Kincaid, p. 11, 14, 16, 17.</ref><ref>[http://www.archives.gov/federal-register/codification/executive-order/10450.html Executive Order 10450]--Security requirements for Government employment.</ref>  Davis was associated with several other organizations on the [[Attorney General's List of Totalitarian, Fascist, Communist, Subversive, and Other Organizations]] including the [[American Youth for Democracy]], [[National Federation for Constitutional Liberties]], [[League of American Writers]],<ref>The Summer (1938) issue of the ''The Bulletin'' listed Frank Marshall Davis as Treasurer of the Chicago Chapter of the League of American Writers.  He signed the "Call to the Fourth Congress, June 6-8, 1941, New York City," sponsored by the League. (See ''[[New Masses]]'', April 22 1941, page 25). 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, FBI file Frank Marshall Davis, v.5 pp.9-11 pdf.</ref> and the [[National Negro Congress]], according to the Reports of the Commission on Subversive Activities of the Territory of Hawaii.  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>

1948, pp. 95 and 120.)"</ref> and again under Executive Order 10450.<ref>[http://www.usasurvival.org/docs/davis.FBI.File.pdf FBI file Frank Marshall Davis], Summary file edited by Cliff Kincaid, p. 11, 14, 16, 17.</ref><ref>[http://www.archives.gov/federal-register/codification/executive-order/10450.html Executive Order 10450]--Security requirements for Government employment.</ref>  Davis was associated with several other organizations on the [[Attorney General's List of Totalitarian, Fascist, Communist, Subversive, and Other Organizations]] including the [[American Youth for Democracy]], [[National Federation for Constitutional Liberties]], [[League of American Writers]],<ref>The Summer (1938) issue of the ''The Bulletin'' listed Frank Marshall Davis as Treasurer of the Chicago Chapter of the League of American Writers.  He signed the "Call to the Fourth Congress, June 6-8, 1941, New York City," sponsored by the League. (See ''[[New Masses]]'', April 22 1941, page 25). 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, FBI file Frank Marshall Davis, v.5 pp.9-11 pdf.</ref> and the [[National Negro Congress]], according to the Reports of the Commission on Subversive Activities of the Territory of Hawaii.   

Davis, like [[Nathan Gregory Silvermaster]], was in the [[FBI]]'s security index, meaning he could be arrested and detained in the event of a national emergency.

Davis, like [[Nathan Gregory Silvermaster]], was in the [[FBI]]'s security index, meaning he could be arrested and detained in the event of a national emergency.