Benjamin Davis, an African American Communist and Harvard-educated lawyer, defended Angelo Herndon in 1933, helped defend the Scottsboro Boys, and in 1943 successfully ran for the New York City Council. He served in the council until 1949, when he was jailed under the Smith Act. Media scholar Prince White, author of a PhD dissertation on Davis, discusses Davis’ life and the visual representations of him in the Black press and other media.
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