About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 40. Chapters: Damon Runyon, Frank Marshall Davis, William Allen White, William Inge, Velina Hasu Houston, Richard Rhodes, Carleton Beals, Frank H. Maynard, Robert Quillen, Laird Wilcox, Charles Harris Garrigues, Elizabeth Williams Champney, Ally Carter, James Gunn, Don Coldsmith, Caleb Stegall, Dean Grennell, Charles Sheldon, Robert McAlmon, William Lindsay White, Philip Heldrich, Ron Walters, Mary Francis Craig, Laura Abbot, Bunny McBride, Denise Low, E. Haldeman-Julius, Clementine Paddleford, Vance Randolph, John Davis, Mary Frances Winston Newson, Kenneth S. Davis, Grant Wahl, Helen Brockman, Bessie Anderson Stanley, Max Yoho, Stephen Yenser, E. W. Howe, Scott Heim, Joe McGuff, Verna Allee, Robert E. Pearson, Elizabeth Gould Davis, Mac Tonnies, Matthew Polly, Ralph Easley, Scott Phillips, Edwin Emery Slosson, Karen Lee Killough, James Bailey, Andrew Wojtanik, Adam Desnoyers, Thomas Fox Averill. Excerpt: Frank Marshall Davis (December 31, 1905, Arkansas City, Kansas; July 26, 1987, Honolulu, Hawaii) was an American journalist, poet, and political and labor movement activist. Beginning at age 17, Davis attended Friends University (1923) and later at Kansas State Agricultural College (now Kansas State University) (1924-27, 1929) but didn't graduate. When Davis entered Kansas State, there were 25 other African-American students enrolled there. He studied industrial journalism. He began to write poems as the result of a class assignment and was encouraged to continue writing poetry by an English literature instructor. Frank pledged Phi Beta Sigma fraternity in 1925. In 1927, Davis moved to Chicago, where he worked variously for the Chicago Evening Bulletin, the Chicago Whip and the Gary American, all African-American newspapers. He also wrote free-lance articles and short stories for African-American magazines. It was also during t...
