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Frank Marshall Davis was born in Arkansas City, Kansas December 31, 1905, although he gave false information about his date of birth when registering with the Selective Service in Chicago in 1940. 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, although he gave false information about his date of birth when registering with the Selective Service in Chicago in 1940. 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.
After College Davis went to [[Atlanta]], [[Georgia]] and became Managing Editor of the ''Atlanta Daily World'' in 1931. 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</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>
After College Davis went to [[Atlanta]], [[Georgia]] and became Managing Editor of the ''Atlanta Daily World'' in 1931. 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</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#ixzz0O7OaYZUc</ref>
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