Its A Small Communist World
http:// keywiki.org/Oneil_Cannon
Oneil Cannon joined the Communist Party USA in the 1950s and was active for at leat 30 years.
As a member of the Communist Party USA, he became the educaton director in the Southern California District, and a member of the Party’s Southern California and National Central Committees.
Oneil Cannon counted among his friends many leaders and later elected officials of the African-American community. Paul Robeson was one of his valued friends; he would see him whenever he came to Los Angeles.
Oneil was committed to electing Black and Latino representatives at all levels of government. He helped to elect Augustus Hawkins, Tom Bradley, Ed Roybal, Diane Watson, Maxine Waters, and Karen Bass.
Cannon campaigned for Barack Obama in 2008, and wept with joy along with millions of others when he was elected. He died peacefully, wearing one of his Obama T-shirts
http:// keywiki.org/Paul_Robeson
Robeson and W.E.B. DuBois were both Communist Party USA members. On April 9th, 1998 at Chicago's South Shore Cultural Center, Vernon Jarrett hosted a Paul Robeson Citywide Centennial Celebration event, with his old comrade and Party sympathiser Margaret Burroughs and former Communist Party USA members Studs Terkel and his old friend Oscar Brown, Jr.
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The following officers and council members were elected at the June 1946 convention of the Communist Party USA youth wing American Youth for Democracy:
Illinois: Iz Cheifetz, Evelyn Fargo, Sam Freidman, Delores Gerrard, Leon Gurley, Pat Hoverder, Vernon Jarrett.
In early 1948 Frank Marshall Davis served on the publicity committee of the Citizens' Committee to Aid Packing-House Workers with Vernon Jarrett
A son, Dr. William Jarrett, died in 1993. He was married for five years to Valerie Jarrett, who served as senior advisor to U.S. president Barack Obama.
http:// keywiki.org/Frank_Marshall_Davis
Frank Marshall Davis (1905-1987) was a journalist, poet and Communist Party USA activist in Chicago and Hawaii. In Hawaii he was a mentor to a young Barack Obama. Davis' wife, Helen Canfield Davis, was a member of the Paul Robeson Club of the Communist Party of Chicago. Through its control of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) the Hawaiian Communist Party had considerable influence on the local Democratic Party, At the time that the Communist Party of Hawaii went underground, it also carried out a program of infiltration of the Democratic Party and other noncommunist organizations. Harnden also reported that Frank Marshall Davis and Stanley Armour Dunham smoked marijuana together.One chapter in his book concerns the seduction by Davis and his first wife of a 13-year-old girl called Anne
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Stanley Armour Dunham was the maternal grandfather of Barack Obama. he was the husband of Madelyn Dunham and the father of Stanley Ann Dunham.
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Stanley Ann Dunham (November 29, 1942 – November 7, 1995) was the wife of Barak Obama Sr. and the mother of President Barack Obama, and Maya Soetoro.