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Benjamin J. "Ben" Davis était un homme politique afro-américain. Sympathisant du communisme, il fut élu au New York City Council en 1943, en tant que représentant du quartier de Harlem. Après la Seconde Guerre mondiale, il dut faire face à une opposition grandissante en dehors de Harlem, et en 1951, il fut emprisonné pour une durée de cinq ans pour avoir violé le Smith Act. À l'instar d'autres hommes politiques afro-américains comme Adam Clayton Powell Jr., Davis a joué un rôle de premier plan dans le Mouvement des droits civiques et dans le montée progressive de l'influence des populations noires en politique. Wikipedia  

✵ 1903 – 1964
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“In fact, the drive against the Communists is aimed, above all, against the labor movement.”

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Benjamin J. Davis Jr.

"Why I am a Communist" (1947)

“Whether one agrees with the Communist Party or not, one must at least know the truth about it. One must not permit his ideas to be shaped by the hysteria which now passes as a "crusade against Communism."… For example, the canard that every Communist has his pockets lined with "Moscow gold." If that were true, one could be sure that there would scarcely be any room in our party for workers. The capitalists, to whom gold is god of the universe, would crowd them out.”

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Benjamin J. Davis Jr.

"Why I am a Communist" (1947)

“As a Negro American, I want to be free. I want equal opportunities, equal rights; I want to be accorded the same dignity as a human being and the same status as a citizen as any other American. This is my constitutional right. I want first-class, unconditional citizenship. I want it, and am entitled to it, now.”

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Benjamin J. Davis Jr.

"Why I am a Communist" (1947)

“I became a member of the Party in January, 1933, in the heat of battle. At the time, I was serving as defense attorney for Angelo Herndon in Atlanta, Georgia, where Herndon, an eighteen-year-old Negro youth, had been framed on a charge of inciting to insurrection…. Of what was Herndon "guilty"? He had led a demonstration of unemployed Negro and white workers to City Hall, had been found with a couple of Communist pamphlets in his possession, and possessed a firm and inspiringly defiant advocacy of the freedom of Negroes and of the liberation of the white masses from exploitation. The "dangerous" policy he then espoused as a Communist, was the unity of the Negroes in the South with the impoverished white workers and poor farmers.”

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Benjamin J. Davis Jr.

"Why I am a Communist" (1947)

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