Documentary made in 1987. Rice & Roses rediscovers Frank Marshall Davis who achieved fame and some notoriety in the 1930s and 40s as one of the foremost Black practitioners of social realism in poetry. He was also a crusading editor for such Black newspapers as the Atlanta Daily World and the Gray American. Davis served as Executive Editor of the Associated Negro Press from 1941 to 1948 and had a unique perspective on the minority struggle for equality during WWII. Davis moved to Hawai`i in 1948 where he wrote for the Honolulu Record. Our story features excerpts from his poetry and observations on the civil rights movement in the 1930s and 40s.
