Movement. In 2018, he was inducted into the Chicago Literary Hall of Fame. In Barack Obama's memoir Dreams from My Father (1995), Davis is referred to as a friend in Hawaii of Obama's maternal grandfather Stanley Dunham; Obama later identified the man as Davis. Obama said Davis recounted that he and Stanley Dunham had grown up 50 miles apart in Kansas, near Wichita, although they did not meet until living in Hawaii. Davis described the way Kansas race relations were back then, including Jim Crow restrictions, and his belief that there had been little progress since then. As Obama remembered, "It made me smile, thinking back on Frank and his old Black Power, dashiki self. In some ways he was as incurable as my mother, as certain in his faith, living in the same sixties time warp that Hawaii had created." Obama also remembered Frank Davis later in life after taking a job in South Chicago as a community organizer. One day Obama visited areas where Davis had lived, writing, "I imagined Frank in a baggy suit and wide lapels, standing in front of the old Regal Theatre, waiting to see Duke or Ella emerge from a gig." Works Selected works Black Man's Verse; Black Cat, (Chicago, IL), 1935. I Am the American Negro, Black Cat, (Chicago, IL), 1937, Through Sepia Eyes; Black Cat, (Chicago, IL), 1938. 47th Street: Poems; Decker (Prairie City, IL), 1948. Black Man's Verse; Black Cat (Skokie, IL), 1961. Sex Rebel: Black (Memoirs of a Gash Gourmet), (written under pseudonym "Bob Greene"); Greenleaf Publishing Company (Evanston, IL), 1968. Jazz Interludes: Seven Musical Poems; Black Cat (Skokie, IL), 1977. Awakening and Other Poems; Black Cat (Skokie, IL), 1978. Livin' the Blues: Memoirs of a Black Journalist and Poet, ed. John Edgar Tidwell; University of Wisconsin Press, 1992, Black Moods: Collected Poems, ed. John Edgar Tidwell; University of Illinois Press, 2002, Writings of Frank Marshall Davis: A Voice of the Black Press, ed. by John Edgar Tidwell; University Press of Mississippi, 2007. ; References Sources King, Woodie, Jr., ed., The Forerunners: Black Poets in America, Howard University Press, 1975. An Interview with Frank Marshall Davis, by John Edgar Tidwell. Black American Literature Forum, Vol. 19, No. 3, Autumn, 1985, pp. 105–108 African American Review, Summer–Fall 2003, p. 466. Black Scholar, Summer 1996, p. 17. Western Journal of Black Studies, Winter 2002, p. 215. "Frank Marshall Davis: Black Labor