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Guide to the Frank Marshall Davis Collection, 1935-1987
Finding aid prepared by Melissa Barton, December 2006
| Title: | Frank Marshall Davis Collection |
|---|---|
| Dates: | 1935-1987 |
| Size: | 4 linear feet |
| Repository: |
Archives of the DuSable Museum of African American
History |
Subject Headings
Access
Contact Museum Curatorial Department, (773) 947-0600, x247
Citation
When quoting material from this collection the preferred citation is:
Davis, Frank Marshall Collection. [Box #, Folder #]. DuSable Museum of African American History.
Provenance
Part I (Box 1) Gift of Frank Marshall Davis [?], 1984; Part II (Boxes 2-5) Gift of Beth Davis Charlton, 1989.
Acknowledgements
Funding to process this collection and compose its finding aid was provided by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Biographical Note
Frank Marshall Davis (1905-1987), poet, journalist, and educator, was born December 31, 1905 in Arkansas City, Kansas. He graduated from high school in 1923; the following year he took courses at Friend's University in Wichita. In 1924, he enrolled in the Journalism School at Kansas State University, but, after two and a half years, finances forced him to leave school, and he moved to Chicago. He returned to Kansas State for one more year in 1928 with a Sigma Delta Chi Perpetual Scholarship, but in 1930 he left again, relocating to Atlanta. Davis 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. A prolific journalist and arts critic, Davis published articles in the Chicago Evening Bulletin, the Chicago Whip, the Gary (Ind.) American, the Atlanta World, the Chicago Star, and the Honolulu Record. Writings for the Associated Negro Press included two weekly features, "Rating the Records" and "Things Theatrical."
The author of three major volumes of poetry, Black Man's Verse (1935), I Am the American Negro (1937), and 47th Street (1948), Davis also published the illustrated volume Through Sepia Eyes (1938), and, when he was "rediscovered" in the 1970s, Awakening, and Other Poems (1978) and Jazz Interlude (1984). Davis's first book, Black Man's Verse, won praise from Poetry magazine's Harriet Monroe when it was first published in 1935, and he received a Julius Rosenwald Fellowship for poetry in 1937. According to John Edgar Tidwell, Davis's poetry "is characterized by robust statements of urban themes, a fierce social consciousness, a strong declamatory voice, and an almost rabid race pride" (203). Active in all arenas of Chicago's bourgeoning Black cultural scene, Davis was one of the founding members of the late 1930s South Side Writers' Group associated with Richard Wright, as well as a prominent participant in events organized by the South Side Community Art Center and the Abraham Lincoln Center throughout the 1940s. Davis frequently gave public lectures on subjects ranging from the political and social status of African Americans to the history of jazz. He also participated in several grass-roots political groups, including the Chicago Civil Liberties Committee, and was a sponsor of the Southside chapter of American Youth for Democracy. An aficionado of jazz music, Davis taught a full ten-lecture course on the history of jazz at the Southside Abraham Lincoln School and was "Jazz Disc Jockey" on Chicago's WJJD in the 1940s.
In 1948, Davis moved with his wife Helen Canfield Davis to Honolulu, Hawaii, where he would live the rest of his life and raise five children- four daughters, Lynn, Beth, Jeanne, and Jill, and one son, Mark. Though he continued to publish articles in Negro Digest, Davis's move to Hawaii removed him from Chicago's literary scene, and he all but disappeared from notice. With the advent of the Black Arts Movement in the late 1960s, however, Davis's poetry enjoyed a renaissance thanks to the attention of poet and Broadside Press editor Dudley Randall, critic Stephen Henderson, and DuSable Museum Founder and Director Margaret Taylor Goss Burroughs. Randall named him the "father of modern Black poetry" and organized a college lecture tour in 1973. A volume of poetry, Awakening, and Other Poems, followed in 1978. In 1985, Burroughs published a volume of Davis's poetry entitled Jazz Interlude with the DuSable Museum's press.
In the early 1960s, Davis began shopping a manuscript, Livin' the Blues: Inhibited Memoirs of a Black Poet Journalist, to publishers. He also wrote and published Sex Rebel: Black (1968), a fictional autobiography that he described as an "erotographic" novel, under the pseudonym Bob Greene. Though Davis would try throughout the sixties and with renewed effort in the eighties to publish Livin' the Blues, he would not succeed in placing the memoir in his lifetime. Davis died in Honolulu in 1987. In 1992, Davis scholar John Edgar Tidwell worked with Margaret Taylor Burroughs to publish Livin' the Blues using manuscripts held by the DuSable Museum.
Sources
- "Frank Marshall Davis." Contemporary Authors Online. Gale, 2003. Accessed Dec. 11, 2006.
- Mullen, Bill V. Popular Fronts: Chicago and African-American Cultural Politics, 1935-46. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1999.
- Tidwell, John Edgar. "Davis, Frank Marshall." Oxford Companion to African American Literature. ed. William L. Andrews, Frances Smith Foster, and Trudier Harris. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. 202-203.
Books by Frank Marshall Davis
- Black Man's Verse. Chicago: Black Cat Press, 1935.
- I Am the American Negro. Chicago: Black Cat Press, 1937.
- Through Sepia Eyes. Illustrated by William Fleming. Chicago, Black Cat Press, 1938.
- 47th Street: Poems. Prairie City, IL: Decker Press, 1948.
- Greene, Bob. [Frank Marshall Davis.] Sex Rebel: Black: Memoirs of a Gash Gourmet. San Diego: Greenleaf Classics, 1968.
- Awakening, and Other Poems. Chicago: Black Cat Press, 1978.
- Jazz Interlude: Seven Musical Poems. Ed. Margaret Taylor Burroughs. Chicago: The DuSable Museum Press, 1985.
- Livin' the Blues: Memoirs of a Black Journalist and Poet. Ed. John Edgar Tidwell. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 1992.
- Black Moods: Collected Poems. Ed. John Edgar Tidwell. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2002.
Scope and Content Note
The Frank Marshall Davis Collection includes manuscripts, correspondence, broadsides and pamphlets, serials, ephemera, clippings, and scrapbooks. While the scrapbooks, ephemera, and serials date from Davis's time in Atlanta and Chicago from 1935-1947, the bulk of the correspondence is from 1964 onward, when Davis was trying to place the manuscript of his autobiography Livin' the Blues, as well as two pseudonymous "erotographic" novels titled Sex Rebel: Black and Penguins in Paradise. Because the collection is so small, the container list has not been divided by series, but each category and its arrangement will be described briefly here: Manuscripts, Correspondence, Memoranda, Broadsides and Pamphlets, Serials, Ephemera, Clippings, Scrapbooks, and Miscellaneous.
Manuscripts, 1984, [n.d.]
Manuscripts include three versions (two of which appear identical) of Davis's autobiography Livin' the Blues. The first version is moderately corrected in Davis's hand; the second and third bear out these corrections in the typescript. Correspondence in the DuSable Museum Biography Files indicates that these manuscripts are probably the version John Edgar Tidwell published in 1992. The manuscripts section also includes a galley of Jazz Interlude, a volume of Davis's poetry published by the DuSable Museum in 1985, corrected by Margaret Taylor Burroughs.
Correspondence, 1935-1945; 1965-1985
The earlier dates in this section include letters that were laid in one of Davis's scrapbooks; what appears to be a readers' letter by James Weldon Johnson dated 8 August, 1935, presumably for Black Man's Verse, as well as correspondence detailing Davis's frustrated attempts to secure publication for 47th Street (collected in the folder "47th Street Publishers' Correspondence"). The rest of the correspondence details Davis's campaign to publish Livin' the Blues, as well as inquiries about two pseudonymous novels which Davis described as "erotographic," titled Sex Rebel: Black and Penguins in Paradise. Of particular interest are Davis's extensive exchanges with his Chicago-based literary agent, Paul Romaine, which suggest that Davis resisted repeated suggestions from publishers and from Romaine for revising his memoir.
Correspondence is arranged alphabetically by name of correspondent, with the following exceptions: correspondence with companies and institutions is filed under the name of the company or institution, with the name of the individual correspondent listed in parentheses in the item description; where an exchange with a publisher involved only one or two letters, correspondence is collected under the title of the work; form letters and letters for permissions are collected under the headings "Form Letters" and "Permissions."
Davis carried on a sustained correspondence with Margaret Taylor Burroughs; these letters are preserved in the "Davis, Frank Marshall" file in the DuSable Museum Biography Files.
Memoranda, [n.d.]
This folder includes several scraps of paper with Davis's memoranda-two of which are lists of publishing houses.
Broadsides and Pamphlets
This small category includes two items of particular interest: "Three Poems" by Karl W. Carter, a Broadside Press broadside, inscribed to Davis by Carter, and a booklet titled "Eyewitness: Peekskill U.S.A.," a report by the Westchester Committee for a Fair Inquiry into the Peekskill Violence. The report details events in the town of Peekskill, New York, on August 27, 1949 and September 4, 1949. On August 27, anti-communist and anti-black protests against the appearance of Paul Robeson in concert led to violence, forestalling the concert. Roebeson's appearance was rescheduled for September 4, and was held in spite of protesters, but afterwards violence erupted again, with protesters throwing stones at audience members as they left the concert. A total of 145 were injured; no one was killed.
Serials, 1925-1950; 1966
This section includes a number of relatively rare issues of serials, including the first two issues of Jack Conroy's Chicago-based New Anvil; a fragment of the second of only two issues of the short-lived journal Race: A Quarterly Devoted to Social, Political and Economic Equality; a special "Negro Poets Issue," edited by Langston Hughes, of Voices: A Quarterly of Poetry, and the issue of Free World in which Davis's poem "For All Common People" was first printed. Serials are arranged alphabetically by title, then chronologically within each title.
Ephemera, 1944-1946; 1956
This section includes invitations, programs, posters and handbills from lectures and other events in which Davis participated around the Chicago area. Many of the handbills relate to events at the Abraham Lincoln School, where Davis both lectured frequently and taught a course on the history of jazz. One handbill for the course includes a rough syllabus of lectures. Other notable Davis speaking engagements include a panel entitled "Hear These 4 Liberal Leaders," with Jacob J. Weinstein, Deborah V. Dauber, and Walter Sassaman, dated February 19, 1946.
Miscellaneous
The miscellaneous section comprises an autographed copy of a doctoral dissertation in the Department of History, Indiana University, by Lawrence Daniel Hogan, entitled "A Black National News Service: Claude Barnett, The Associated Negro Press, and Afro-American Newspapers, 1919-1945."
Related Resources
See "Davis, Frank Marshall" Biography File in DuSable Museum Biography Files
Note on the Processing
Original order has been retained with the following exceptions: alphabetical and chronological arrangements have been made as noted; correspondence for 47th Street was laid in one of the scrapbooks, as was the James Weldon Johnson letter. These have been placed in folders to facilitate access and to better conserve them.
INVENTORY
Box 1
Folder 1
Livin' the Blues mss., version 1, pp. 1-204, [n.d.]
Box 1
Folder 2
Livin' the Blues mss., version 1, pp. 205-377 [n.d.]
Box 1
Folder 3
Livin' the Blues mss., version 2, carbon copy, (reflecting corrections from version 1), pp. 1-400 [n.d.]
Box 1
Folder 4
Livin' the Blues mss., version 2, carbon copy, pp. 401-469
Box 1
Folder 5
Livin' the Blues mss., version 3, (carbon copies with original typescript of many pages interleaved; some pages missing; pagination irregular), pp. 1-380, [n.d.]
Box 1
Folder 6
Livin' the Blues mss., version 3, pp. 381-469, [n.d.]
Box 1
Folder 7
Livin' the Blues mss., fragments (7 pages), [n.d.]
Box 1
Folder 8
Copy of 47th Street, made for FMD by Margaret T. Burroughs, 27 Feb 1981 (published 1948)
Box 1
Folder 9
Jazz Interlude mss. (fragment), [n.d.] [pub. 1985]
Box 1
Folder 10
Jazz Interlude corrected galley [n.d.] [pub. 1985]
Box 2
Folder 1
Correspondence--47th Street Publishers' Correspondence
- From The Household Magazine (Nelson Antrim Crawford), 20 Oct. 1938
- From The Dryden Press, Inc. (Stanley Burnshaw), 14 Apr. 1944
- From The Dryden Press, Inc. (Stanley Burnshaw), 26 Apr. 1944
- From Henry Holt and Company (L.M. Lawton), 24 May 1944
- From Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. (Herbert Weinstock), 23 Oct. 1944
- From Duell, Sloan & Pearce, Inc. (Samuel Sloan), 31 Oct. 1944
- From Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. (Herbert Weinstock), 12 Dec. 1944
- From The Press of James A. Decker (Dorothy Decker), 27 Jan. 1945
- From Random House, Inc. (Saxe Commins), 2 Apr. 1945
- From Bernard Ackerman Publishers (Charles Dwoskin), 13 Mar. 1946
- From The Dryden Press, Inc. (Stanley Burnshaw), 4 Mar 1946
Box 2
Folder 2
Correspondence--Christmas Cards (blank)
- "mele kalikimaka!"
- "Aloha from Hawaii"
Box 2
Folder 3
Correspondence--Form Letters
- From Coronet Magazine (Johnson Garvis), 2 Aug. 1946
- From Literary Clipping Service, [n.d.]
Box 2
Folder 4
Correspondence--Governor's State University
- From Governor's State University (Warrick Carter), 20 Feb. 1984
Box 2
Folder 5
Correspondence--Greenleaf Classics
- From Greenleaf Classics (Earl Kemp), 17 Jan. 1968
- To Greenleaf Classics (carbon copy), 14 Jan 1968
- To Greenleaf Classics (Earl Kemp) (carbon copy), 21 Jan 1968
- From Greenleaf Classics (Earl Kemp), 16 Feb. 1968
- To Greenleaf Classics (Earl Kemp) (carbon copy), 19 Feb. 1968
- To Greenleaf Classics (Earl Kemp) (carbon copy), 26 Feb. 1968
- To Greenleaf Classics (Earl Kemp) (carbon copy), 3 Mar. 1968
- From Greenleaf Classics (Earl Kemp), 23 May 1968
- To Greenleaf Classics (Earl Kemp) (carbon copy), 9 Jun. 1968
- To Greenleaf Classics (Earl Kemp) (carbon copy), 25 Aug. 1968
- To Greenleaf Classics (Earl Kemp) (carbon copy), 27 Nov. 1968
- To Greenleaf Classics (Earl Kemp) (carbon copy), 10 Dec. 1968
- From Greenleaf Classics (Earl Kemp), 17 Dec. 1968
- To Greenleaf Classics (Earl Kemp) (carbon copy), 29 Dec. 1968
- To Greenleaf Classics (Earl Kemp) (carbon copy), 27 Feb. 1969
- To Greenleaf Classics (Earl Kemp) (carbon copy), 16 Mar. 1969
- To Greenleaf Classics (Earl Kemp) (carbon copy), 11 May 1969
Box 2
Folder 6
Correspondence--Grove Press
- To Grove Press (Barney Rossett) (carbon copy), 25 Oct 1965
- To Grove Press (Barney Rossett) (carbon copy), 28 May 1967
- From Grove Press (Judith Schmidt), 31 May 1967
- To Grove Press (Barney Rossett) (carbon copy), 19 Jul 1967
- To Grove Press (Barney Rossett) (carbon copy), 17 Sep 1967
- To Grove Press (Barney Rossett) (carbon copy), 8 Oct 1967
- From Grove Press (Barney Rossett), 17 Oct 1967
- From Grove Press (Richard Seaver), 11 Dec 1967
- To Grove Press (Richard Seaver) (carbon copy), 29 Dec 1967
- From Grove Press, [n.d.]
Box 2
Folder 7
Correspondence--Howard University
- To Howard University (Thomas C. Battle) (carbon copy), 12 Jul. 1979
Box 2
Folder 8
Correspondence--James Weldon Johnson
- From James Weldon Johnson to Frances Norton Manning, 8 Aug 1935
Box 2
Folder 9
Correspondence--Leonard C. Lewin
- From "L." [Leonard C. Lewin?], 6 Oct. 1966
- From Leonard C. Lewin, 15 Jul. 1966
- From Leonard C. Lewin, 19 Jan 1966
- To Leonard C. Lewin (carbon copy), 9 Aug. 1966
- From Leonard C. Lewin, 8 Jan. 1968
Box 2
Folder 10
Correspondence--Livin' the Blues Publishers' Correspondence
- To Author and Journalist (carbon copy), 6 Aug. 1965
- From Author and Journalist (Larston D. Farrar), ca. Aug. 1965 [n.d.]
- To Stein and Day (Patricia Day), 15 Aug. 1965
- From Stein and Day (Patricia Day), 22 Aug. 1965
- To Atheneum Publishers (carbon copy), 25 Aug. 1965
- From Atheneum Publishers, 6 Sep. 1965
- To Atheneum Publishers (carbon copy), 12 Sep. 1965
- To Atheneum Publishers (carbon copy), 21 Oct. 1965
- To Vanguard Press (Evelyn Shrifte) (carbon copy), 31 Oct. 1965
- From Vanguard Press (James Henle), 5 Nov. 1965
- To Vanguard Press (James Henle) (carbon copy), 9 Nov. 1965
- To G. P. Putnam's Sons (Peter Israel) (carbon copy), 10 Dec. 1965
- To Trident Press (Bucklin Moon) (carbon copy), 10 Dec. 1965
- To Doubleday and Co. (carbon copy), 13 Jul. 1966
- To Alfred A. Knopf Inc. (Angus Cameron) (carbon copy), 9 Aug. 1966
- From Alfred A. Knopf Inc. (Diane Zeeman), 12 Aug. 1966
- To Pantheon Books (Andrew Schiffrin) (carbon copy), 2 Oct. 1966
- To Ivan Oblensky, Inc. (carbon copy), 18 Dec. 1966
- From Paul S. Eriksson, Inc. (Paul S. Eriksson), 13 Jan. 1967
- To Fleet Publishing Corp. (Oscar Collier) (carbon copy), 15 Mar. 1967
- To Paul Eriksson (carbon copy), 20 Mar. 1967
Box 2
Folder 11
Correspondence--Permissions
- From Ashton Scholastic (Leone Henching), 14 Oct. 1974
- From Books for Libraries Press, Inc. (Beverly Bass), 3 Jun. 1974
- From Ginn and Company (Peggy Alper), 28 Feb. 1967
Box 2
Folder 12
Correspondence--Paul Romaine
- From Paul Romaine, 22 Jan 1945
- From Paul Romaine, 13 Mar. 1967
- To Paul Romaine (carbon copy), 26 Mar. 1967
- From Paul Romaine, 10 Apr. 1967
- From Paul Romaine, 15 Jun. 1967
- To Paul Romaine 12 Aug. 1967/From Paul Romaine, 21 Aug. 1967
- From Paul Romaine, 25 Jan. 1968
- From Paul Romaine, 19 Apr. 1968
- From Hill and Wang Publishers (Lawrence Hill) to Paul Romaine (copy), 11 Apr. 1968
- To Paul Romaine (carbon copy), 24 Apr. 1968
- From Paul Romaine, 13 May 1968
- To Paul Romaine (carbon copy), 16 Jun 1968
- receipt for insured mail, 18 Jun 1968
- From Paul Romaine, 11 Jul. 1968
- To Paul Romaine (carbon copy), 9 Jul. 1968
- To Paul Romaine (carbon copy), 15 Jul. 1968
- From Paul Romaine, 18 Jul. 1968
- To Paul Romaine (carbon copy), 7 Aug. 1968
- receipt for insured mail, 9 Sep. 1968
- To Paul Romaine (carbon copy), 5 Dec. 1968
- From Paul Romaine, 14 Dec. 1968
- From Paul Romaine, 16 Dec. 1968
- To Paul Romaine (carbon copy), 7 Feb. 1969
- From Paul Romaine, 11 Feb. 1969
- From Paul Romaine, 25 Feb. 1969
- From Paul Romaine, 30 Jan. 1969/From Lawrence Hill to Paul Romaine, 24 Jan. 1969
- From Paul Romaine, 15 Apr. 1969
- From Paul Romaine, 12 Jun. 1969
- From Paul Romaine, 18 Jun. 1969
- From Paul Romaine, 4 Oct. 1969
- From Paul Romaine, 24 Sep. 1971
- From Paul Romaine, 26 May 1972
- From Saunders Redding to Paul Romaine (copy), 24 Apr. 1972
- From Paul Romaine, 22 Jun. 1973
- From Paul Romaine, 28 Sep. 1974
- Paul Romaine's business card, n.d.
Box 2
Folder 13
Correspondence--Rutgers Institute of Jazz Studies
- From Rutgers Institute of Jazz Studies (Ron Welburn), 23 Aug. 1982
Box 2
Folder 14
Correspondence--Sex Rebel: Black / Penguins in Paradise Publishers' Correspondence
- To Brandon House (carbon copy), 15 Dec. 1967
- From Brandon House (Yvonne MacManus), 26 Dec. 1967
- To Brandon House (Yvonne MacManus) (carbon copy), 8 Jan 1968
- To Holloway House (carbon copy), 14 Jan. 1968
- To Collectors Publications (carbon copy), 12 Apr. 1969
- From Collectors Publications (Marvin Miller), 12 May 1969
- To Collectors Publications (carbon copy), 9 Jul. 1969
- To Venice Publishing Corp. (carbon copy), 16 Jul. 1969
- To KDS--Century Books (carbon copy), 24 Jul. 1969
- From Holloway House (Robert J. Leighton), 30 Jul. 1969
- receipt for insured mail, 7 Aug. 1969
- To Holloway House (Robert J. Leighton) (carbon copy), 21 Sep. 1969
- To Peyote Press (carbon copy), 26 Sep. 1969
- From Abilene International Publications, 30 Sep. 1969
- To Pendulum Books (carbon copy), 27 Oct. 1969
- From Pendulum Books (Dale Koby) (copy), 14 Nov. 1969
- To Abilene International Publications (Philip Weaver) (carbon copy), 15 Nov. 1969
- To Pendulum Books (Dale Koby) (carbon copy), 18 Nov. 1969
Box 2
Folder 15
Correspondence--John Edgar Tidwell
- From Joe Weilmann to John Edgar Tidwell, 23 Jul. 1985/From John Edgar Tidwell to Joe
- Weilmann, 2 Aug. 1985 (copy)
- From John Edgar Tidwell to Carol Oukrop, 2 Aug. 1985
Box 2
Folder 16
Correspondence--Warren Paul Associates
- From Warren Paul Associates (Warren Paul), 30 May 1964
- To Warren Paul Associates (Warren Paul) (carbon copy), 8 Jun. 1964
- From Warren Paul Associates (M. Mackley), 25 Jun. 1964
- From Warren Paul Associates (Warren Paul), 30 Aug. 1964
- To Warren Paul Associates (Warren Paul) (carbon copy), 13 Sep. 1964
- From Warren Paul Associates (Warren Paul), 1 Nov. 1964
- To Warren Paul Associates (Warren Paul) (carbon copy), 8 Nov. 1964
- To Warren Paul Associates (Warren Paul), 28 Dec. 1964
- To Warren Paul Associates (Warren Paul), 23 Jan. 1965
- To Warren Paul Associates (Warren Paul), 14 Feb. 1965
- From Warren Paul Associates (Warren Paul), 8 Mar. 1965
- To Warren Paul Associates (Warren Paul) (carbon copy), 10 Mar. 1965
- To Warren Paul Associates (Warren Paul) (carbon copy), 19 May 1965
- From Warren Paul Associates (Warren Paul), 6 Jul. 1965
- To Warren Paul Associates (Warren Paul) (carbon copy), 11 Jul. 1965
Box 2
Folder 17
Correspondence--Williams
- To Mr. Williams (carbon copy), 18 Nov 1941
Box 2
Folder 18
Memoranda
Box 2
Folder 19
Broadsides and Pamphlets
- "Tourist Guide for Kansas," 1941 (2 copies)
- "Eyewitness: Peekskill U.S.A.," [ca. Sep. 1949]
- Karl W. Carter, "Three Poems," 1970
Box 4
Elmo Russ and Langston Hughes, "Cross" (Sheet Music), 1940 (see oversize Box 4)
Box 2
Folder 20
Serials: 10 Story Book
- 10 Story Book, 34.1 July 1935
Box 2
Folder 21
Serials: Abbott's Monthly
- Abbott's Monthly, 2.3 Mar 1931
Box 2
Folder 22
Serials: Crisis
- Crisis, Apr 1944
Box 2
Folder 23
Serials: Crisis
- Crisis, Nov. 1949 (2 copies)
Box 2
Folder 24
Serials: Free World
- Free World, 7.2 Feb. 1944
Box 2
Folder 25
Serials: Heebie Jeebies
- Heebie Jeebies 1.46 10 Oct. 1925
Box 2
Folder 26
Serials: Negro Digest
- Negro Digest 5.1 Nov. 1946
- Negro Digest 8.8 Jun 1950
Box 2
Folder 27
Serials: New Anvil
- New Anvil 1.1 Mar. 1939
- New Anvil 1.2 Apr-May 1939
Box 2
Folder 28
Serials: Opportunity
- Opportunity 16.1 Jan. 1938
Box 2
Folder 29
Serials: Race A Quarterly Devoted to Social, Political and Economic Equality
- Race 1.2 Summer 1936 (fragment)
Box 2
Folder 30
Serials: Voices A Quarterly of Poetry
- Voices 140 Winter 1950
Box 2
Folder 31
Serials: Writer
- Writer July 1966
Box 4
Serials: Afro-Hawai'i News
- Afro-Hawai'i News, 1.1, Jun 1987 (see oversize)
- Afro-Hawai'i News, 1.4, Sep 1987 (see oversize)
Box 2
Folder 32
Ephemera
- Certificate of Appreciation from Boy Scouts of America, 13 Mar. 1944
- Poster: "George Washington Carver" lecture by F.M. Davis, 12 Mar. 1944
- Poster: Abraham Lincoln School presents Paul Draper, Larry Adler, Frank M. Davis, 30 Apr. 1944
- Handbill: Committee for Cultural Interchange with the Soviet Union Russia Book Week Program, 3 May 1944
- Invitation: Spring Boogie Concert, South Side Chapter, American Youth for Democracy, 4 Jun 1944
- Invitation: Illinois-Midwest Negro People's Assembly for a Fourth Term for Roosevelt, 24 Jun 1944
- Program: Northwestern University Writers' Conference, 26 Jul 1944
- Poster: "And Something Americana," Abraham Lincoln School, 12 Aug 1944
- Handbill: History of Jazz Music, Abraham Lincoln School, 11 Sep 1944 [?]
- Handbill/Syllabus: The History of Jazz Music, Abraham Lincoln School, 10 Oct 1944
- Invitation: Anniversary of American Youth for Democracy, 14 Oct 1944
- Invitation: "Freedom Road" reviewed by F.M. Davis, 15 Oct 1944 [?]
- Invitation: White Collar and Professional Wartime Legislative Conference, 18 Mar 1945
- Invitation: Hear These 4 Liberal Leaders, x4th Ward Independent Voters of Illinois, 19 Feb 1946
- Program: Patterns of American Culture: Contributions of the Negro, University of Michigan, 27 Jun 1956
- Handbill: Charles Lampkin lecture-recital, [n.d.]
- Handbill: Ebony Rhythm, [n.d.]
Box 2
Folder 33
Clippings
- Advertisement for 47th Street, Negro Digest, Oct 1948
- Photocopy set of clippings re: "Fanny Hill" obscenity case, 1 Dec 1967
- F. M. Davis, "After the Killing," Black World Sep 1974 (photocopy)
- Photocopy page from Black American Poetry: a Critical Commentary [pub. 1977]
- John Edgar Tidwell, "Frank Marshall Davis," Dictionary of Literary Biography (tear sheets)
Box 4
"Poets" [pub. Unknown], [n.d.] (review of Poetry of the Negro, ed. Arna Bontemps and Langston Hughes) (see oversize)
Box 4
"Hawaii's early divorce laws recalled," Honolulu Star-Bulletin, 4 Jan 1966 (see oversize)
Box 2
Folder 34
Clippings--Cottonwood
- Chapter of "Livin' the Blues" in Cottonwood, [n.d.] (photocopy)
Box 3
Scrapbook: clippings about jazz, 1936-1937
Box 3
Scrapbook: correspondence and ephemera, 1946
Box 4
Elmo Russ and Langston Hughes, "Cross" (Sheet Music), 1940
Box 4
"Poets" [pub. Unknown], [n.d.] (review of Poetry of the Negro, ed. Arna Bontemps and Langston Hughes)
Box 4
"Hawaii's early divorce laws recalled," Honolulu Star-Bulletin, 4 Jan 1966
Box 4
Afro-Hawai'i News, 1.1, Jun 1987
Box 4
Afro-Hawai'i News, 1.4, Sep 1987
Box 4
Scrapbook--Loose Pages: clippings of columns by Frank Marshall Davis
- recto: "Law in Honolulu," Atlanta Daily World, 2 May 1932; verso: "Reform Needed in Male Clothing," Atlanta Daily World [?], 3 May 1932
- recto: "Texas Changes Its Spots," Atlanta Daily World [?], 4 May 1932; verso: "America's Monster," [pub. Unknown], 15 May 1932
- recto: "'Reprinted by Request,'" Atlanta Daily World [?], 25 Sep 1932; verso: "Touring the World," Atlanta Daily World [?], 20 Nov 1932
- recto: "Touring the World," Atlanta Daily World [?], 25 Sep 1932; verso: "Fine Points of the Pen," [pub. Unknown], 29 Mar 1932
- recto: "Touring the World," Atlanta Daily World [?], 2 Oct 1932; verso: "Touring the World," Atlanta Daily World [?], 9 Oct 1932
- recto: "Touring the World," Atlanta Daily World [?], 4 Dec 1932; verso: "Touring the World," Atlanta Daily World [?], 11 Dec 1932
- recto: "Touring the World," Atlanta Daily World [?], 25 Dec 1932; verso: "The School Board Again Weilds Its Bludgeon," Atlanta Daily World [?], 14 Apr 1932
- recto: "A Diplomat at Large," The Gary American, Gary, Indiana, [n.d.]; verso: "A Diplomat at Large," The Gary American, Gary, Indiana, n.d.
- recto: "A Diplomat at Large," The Gary American, Gary, Indiana, [n.d.]; verso: "A Diplomat at Large," The Gary American, Gary, Indiana, n.d.
- recto: "A Diplomat at Large," The Gary American, Gary, Indiana, [n.d.]; verso: "A Diplomat at Large," The Gary American, Gary, Indiana, n.d.
- recto: "A Diplomat at Large," The Gary American, Gary, Indiana, [n.d.]; verso: "A Diplomat at Large," The Gary American, Gary, Indiana, n.d.
- recto: Frank Boganey [a.k.a. Frank Marshall Davis], "Speakin' 'Bout Sports," The Gary American, Gary, Indiana [?], [n.d.]; verso: "25,000 Jobs," Atlanta Daily World [?], 2 Aug 1932
Box 4
Scrapbook: columns from Atlanta Daily World and Gary American (Gary, IN), 1932-1933
Box 4
Scrapbook: Clippings about Frank Marshall Davis and ephemera, 1935-1937
Box 4
Scrapbook: clippings about Frank Marshall Davis and ephemera, 1943-1946
Box 4
Scrapbook: clippings about Frank Marshall Davis and ephemera, 1947-1948
Box 5
Lawrence Daniel Hogan, "A Black National News Service: Claude Barnett, The Associated Negro Press, and Afro-American Newspapers, 1919-1945," 11 Jan. 1978