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Frank Marshall Davis, Communist, was early influence on Barack Obama

New details about a black poet in Hawaii who was a key early influence in Barack Obamas life can be revealed by The Telegraph.

Although identified only as Frank in Mr Obamas memoir Dreams from My Father, it has now been established that he was Frank Marshall Davis, a radical activist and journalist who had been suspected of being a member of the Communist Party in the 1950s.

Mr Davis moved to Honolulu from Chicago in 1948 with his second wife Helen Canfield, a white socialite, at the suggestion of his friend the actor Paul Robeson, who advised them that there would be more tolerance of a mixed race couple in Hawaii than on the American mainland.

A bohemian libertine who drank heavily and loved jazz, he became friends with Stanley Dunham, Mr Obamas maternal grandfather in the 1960s. Mr Davis died in 1987 at the age of 81, five years before Mr Dunham.

He knew Stan real well, said Dawna Weatherly-Williams, a close friend of Mr Davis Theyd play Scrabble and drink and crack jokes and crack jokes and argue. Frank always won and he was always very braggadocio about it too. It was all jocular. They didnt get polluted drunk. And Frank never really did drugs, though he and Stan would smoke pot together.

While his mother was in Indonesia during part of his teenage years, Mr Obama lived with his white grandparents. Mrs Weatherly-Williams said that the poet was first introduced to the future Democratic presidential candidate in 1970 at the age of 10.

Stan had been promising to bring Barry by because we all had that in common – Franks kids were half-white, Stans grandson was half-black and my son was half-black. We all had that in common and we all really enjoyed it. We got a real kick out of reality.

Maya Soetoro-Ng, Obama’s half-sister, told the ociated Press recently that her grandfather had seen Mr Davis was a point of connection, a bridge if you will, to the larger African-American experience for my brother”.

In his memoir, Mr Obama recounts how he visited Mr Davis on several occasions, apparently at junctures when he was grappling with racial issues, to seek his counsel. At one point in 1979 Mr Davis described university as an advanced degree in compromise that was designed to keep blacks in their place.

Mr Obama quoted him as saying: Leaving your race at the door. Leaving your people behind. Understand something, boy. Youre not going to college to get educated. Youre going there to get trained.

He added that theyll tank on your chain and let you know that you may be a well-trained, well-paid , but youre a just the same.

It has also been established that Mr Davis, who divorced in 1970, was the author of a hard-core ographic autobiography published in San Diego in 1968 by Greenleaf Classics under the pseudonym Bob Greene.

In a surviving portion of an autobiographical manuscript, Mr Davis confirms that he was the author of Sex Rebel: Black after a reader had noticed the similarities in style and phraseology between the ographic work and his poetry.

I could not then truthfully deny that this book, which came out in 1968 as a Greenleaf Classic, was mine. In the introduction to Sex Rebel, Mr Davis (writing as Greene) explains that although he has changed names and identitiesall incidents I have described have been taken from actual experiences.

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