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African American poetry

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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

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John Edgar Tidwell collection on Frank Marshall Davis

 Collection
Call Number: MS 353
Overview Frank Marshall Davis was a well-known African American poet, journalist, and political activist in the 1930s and 1940s who fell into relative obscurity after moving to Hawaii in 1948, until his poetry was "rediscovered" in the 1970s. John Edgar Tidwell has devoted much of his academic career to researching, editing, and publishing materials both by and about Frank Marshall Davis. This collection comprises both Tidwell's collection of original Frank Marshall Davis materials, as well as...
Dates: 1924 - 2015