BENJAMIN DAVIS JR.
(Benjamin Jefferson Davis Jr.)
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Davis was criticizing the civil rights protesters, who were protesting the U.S. Army’s discrimination of four Blacks at Fort Devens in April 1945. Even though Davis himself was Black, he, along with most communists believed that the international problem of Nazism should be treated first and foremost, and without interruption.
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Benjamin Jefferson "Ben" Davis Jr., was an African-American lawyer and communist who was elected in 1943 to the city council of New York City, 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.
