Tuesday, November 14, 2006

News at Eleven: Instrumental in the Harlem Renaissance

of the 1920s as well as the Black Arts Movement in the late 1960s, [Frank Marshall] Davis would describe his boyhood in Kansas as a "hellhole of inferiority."

In third grade, he was about to be lynched by white children when an adult made the children remove the noose from his neck.

from Wichita Eagle: Ark City native left mark in journalism, poetry and jazz

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