Reviews of Black Moods, Livin' the Blues, 47th Street, and Black Man's Verse published in University of Kansas publications, Associated Negro Press (including a review by Langston Hughes), Black Literature Criticism, Black American Poetry, and the Amazon website. Also includes photocopies of "Rating Hot Records" columns by Davis, photocopies of interviews with Davis by Tidwell and Dudley Randall, and photocopies of letters to Davis from C. E. Rogers, Harriet Monroe, William Allen White, and Ada Rice, Davis's college literature professor.