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Benjamin J. Davis

(Davis, Benjamin J. (Benjamin Jefferson), 1903-1964)

Robert Thompson and Benjamin Davis surrounded by pickets as they leave the Federal Courthouse in New York City / World Telegram & Sun photo by C.M. Stieglitz.

Benjamin Jefferson Davis Jr. (September 8, 1903 – August 22, 1964) was an African-American lawyer and Communist who was elected to the New York City Council in 1943, representing Harlem. He faced increasing opposition from outside Harlem after the end of World War II. In 1949 he was among a number of communist leaders prosecuted for violating the Smith Act. He was convicted and sentenced to five years in prison. (From Wikipedia)

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Davis, Benjamin J. (Benjamin Jefferson), 1903-1964: The Communist Position on the Negro Question (New York: New Century Publishers, 1947), also by William Z. Foster, Eugene Dennis, James E. Jackson, James S. Allen, Abner W. Berry, Homer Chase, Alex Bittelman, Ray Hansborough, Max Weiss, Edward E. Strong, and William L. Patterson, contrib. by Nat Ross (PDF at flvc.org)
Davis, Benjamin J. (Benjamin Jefferson), 1903-1964, contrib.: Dixie Comes to New York: Story of the Freeport GI Slayings (New York: Daily Worker, 1946), by Harry Raymond (page images at Pitt)
Davis, Benjamin J. (Benjamin Jefferson), 1903-1964: Must Negro-Americans Wait Another Hundred Years for Freedom? Against Tokenism and Gradualism (reprinted from Political Affairs; New York: New Century Publishers, 1963) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Davis, Benjamin J. (Benjamin Jefferson), 1903-1964: The Negro People and the Communist Party (New York: Workers Library Publishers, 1943) (multiple formats at archive.org)
Davis, Benjamin J. (Benjamin Jefferson), 1903-1964: The Negro People on the March (New York: New Century Publishers, 1956) (PDF at Pitt)

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Davis, Benjamin J. (Benjamin Jefferson), 1903-1964: Communist candidate for vice-president of the United States, James W. Ford, what he is and what he stands for ... ([New York, 1936) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

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