Claudia Jones: Beyond Containment: Autobiographical Reflections, Essays, and Poems
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Who is loyal to America and its democratic traditions? James Byrnes: governor of South Carolina, who equates the role of the NAACP and KKK, correctly assailed by Thurgood Marshall as "fascist McCarthyism rampant with racism"? Or Ben Davis - whose eloquent voice against Jim Crow scathes Byrnes and all the racists even from behind prison bars? Yes, To Believe In Negro Freedom Means To Be Radical!

— Claudia Jones: Beyond Containment: Autobiographical Reflections, Essays, and Poems

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Benjamin J. Davis Jr.

About Benjamin J. Davis Jr.

Benjamin Jefferson "Ben" Davis Jr. (September 8, 1903 – August 22, 1964), was an African-American lawyer and communist who was elected to the city council of New York City, representing Harlem, in 1943.