Frank marshall davis communist party collage

In 1936 Davis was listed as a contributing editor to the Spokesman, the official organ of the Youth Section of the National Negro Congress, which the U.S. government had identified as a Communist-front organization. In 1940, Davis became involved with the American Peace Mobilization (APM), which the House Committee on Un-American Activities described as “one of the most notorious and blatantly communist fronts ever organized in this country” and “one of the most seditious organizations which ever operated in the United States.” Historian Paul Kengor called APM a “hideous Communist front” that “supported or opposed Hitler based entirely on whether he was signing non-aggression pacts with Joseph Stalin’s USSR or invading Stalin’s USSR.” APM’s objective at that time was to prevent the United States from entering World War II against Nazi Germany, because Hitler had signed a non-aggression pact with Stalin, to whom American communists swore their unwavering allegiance. Davis joined the Communist Party in the early 1940s; his Communist Party card number was 47544. In a letter he sent to a friend during this time period, Davis wrote: “I’ve never discussed this with you and don’t know whether you share the typical American uninformed concepts of Marxism or not, but I am risking such a reaction by saying that I have recently joined the Communist party.” https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individuals/frank-marshall-davis/