I Am the American Negro
- Chicago, IL: Black Cat Press, 1937
Chicago, IL: Black Cat Press, 1937. Very Good. Chicago, IL: Black Cat Press, 1937. First Edition Stated. Slim octavo; publisher's brown cloth, printed paper paste-on to upper cover; 69pp.; title page vignette by Rex Cleveland. Shallow damp stain along bottom edge of rear cover slightly affecting upper cover, corners bumped, contemporary ex libris to front pastedown, else a Very Good, straight and sound copy, contents clean and unmarked. Typography and design by the Black Cat Press's owner and founder Norman W. Forgue.
"In Chicago between 1934 and 1948, Frank Marshall Davis embodied a Renaissance figure...a poet, newspaper reporter, editor, columnist, labor and Civil Rights activist, photographer, radio personality, humanist, and often unacknowledged leader of the Chicago progressive community" (Tracy, p. [161]). "I Am the American Negro" was Davis's second poetry collection, preceded by "Black Man's Verse," published by the Black Cat Press in 1935.
Reference: Steven C. Tracy [ed.], "Writers of the Black Chicago Renaissance" (2011).
"In Chicago between 1934 and 1948, Frank Marshall Davis embodied a Renaissance figure...a poet, newspaper reporter, editor, columnist, labor and Civil Rights activist, photographer, radio personality, humanist, and often unacknowledged leader of the Chicago progressive community" (Tracy, p. [161]). "I Am the American Negro" was Davis's second poetry collection, preceded by "Black Man's Verse," published by the Black Cat Press in 1935.
Reference: Steven C. Tracy [ed.], "Writers of the Black Chicago Renaissance" (2011).