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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>
 
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>
  
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