Includes speaking notes for various talks, including a Miami University talk called "Weaving Jagged Words: Frank Marshall Davis and the Writing of Self-History"; application for research graduate assistantship to help with Black Moods publication; comments by KU professor Elizabeth Schultz on Davis essay; and manuscripts for essays by Leonard Ray Teel, "Two Voices Against Racism in the South: The Journalism and Poetry of Frank Marshall Davis" and "The Voice of the Atlanta World: The Early Career of Frank Marshall Davis." Also includes photocopies of "Rating the Records," "World of Sports," and "World in Review" columns by Davis from Associated Negro Press 1936-1943; a photocopy of a Honolulu Advertiser clipping about Davis and communism; photocopies of records from Phylon about race and African American authors; photocopy of portion of "From One New Negro to Another" by Blyden Jackson and Louis D. Rubin, Jr.; "Things to Come: Swing Bands, Bebop, and the Rise of a Postwar Jazz Scene" by Lewis A. Erenberg; "Richard Wright and the Chicago Renaissance" by Robert Bone; and report on seminar by Lewis Erenberg titled "The Crowd Goes Wild: Swing Music Youth Culture."