Frank Marshall Davis joined the ancestors (Dec 31, 1905 - Jul 26, 1987). Journalist, poet, political/labor movement activist, businessman. He began his career writing for Black newspapers in Chicago. He moved to Atlanta, where he became the editor of the paper he turned into the ‘Atlanta Daily World’, then moved back to Chicago. His poetry work was sponsored by the WPA. He also played a role in the South Side Writers Group. In the memoir ‘Dreams from My Father’, Barack Obama mentions a friend of his grandfather named Frank, whom he later identified as Davis. Obama said Davis told him that he and Obama's maternal grandfather Stanley had grown up only 50 miles apart, near Wichita, although they did not meet until Hawaii.
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