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==Communist activities in Chicago==
==Communist activities in Chicago==
[[File:Jarrett-and-henry-wallace1.jpg|thumb|260px|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 a 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 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 also 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 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 also 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>