I lived from 1905-1987. I was from the United States, and am in the Americas category.
A native of Arkansas City, KS, born on December 31, 1905. Frank Marshall was a journalist, labor activist, poet, ex-patriate, and resident of Hawaii for almost forty years. Davis does not recede from a point of centrality in the Black Chicago Renaissance, he remains a pivotal figure in Chicago's political, labor, literary, jazz, and journalism history, and thus is an excellent case study for understanding black life as a social, geo-political, and cultural signifier. He remains an as yet understudied resource for understanding the Great Negro Migration to the urban Midwest.
Between 1935 and 1947, Davis was Executive Editor for the Associated Negro Press in Chicago. He also started a photography club, worked for numerous political parties, and participated in the League of American Writers. In 1948, 47th Street was published. It was a chronicle of life on Chicago's Southside. That same year Davis relocated to Honolulu, Hawaii, raising five children, operating a small wholesale paper business, and writing a weekly column for the Honolulu Record. Although his work fell slightly out of favor, it was rediscovered during the Black Arts Movement in the 1960s, and in 1978 he published his final volume, Awakening, and Other Poems.
Frank Marshall Davis died in 1987.
Between 1935 and 1947, Davis was Executive Editor for the Associated Negro Press in Chicago. He also started a photography club, worked for numerous political parties, and participated in the League of American Writers. In 1948, 47th Street was published. It was a chronicle of life on Chicago's Southside. That same year Davis relocated to Honolulu, Hawaii, raising five children, operating a small wholesale paper business, and writing a weekly column for the Honolulu Record. Although his work fell slightly out of favor, it was rediscovered during the Black Arts Movement in the 1960s, and in 1978 he published his final volume, Awakening, and Other Poems.
Frank Marshall Davis died in 1987.
