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Description	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.
Source	Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection. http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3c11434
Date	1949.
Author	New York World-Telegram and the Sun staff photographer: Stieglitz, C. M., photographer.
Permission (Reusing this image)	PD [1]

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English: Benjamin J. "Ben" Davis (September 8, 1903 - August 22, 1964), was an African-American communist who was elected to the city council of New York City, representing Harlem, in 1943. He faced increasing opposition from outside Harlem after the end of World War II, and in 1951, he was convicted of violating the Smith Act, and sentenced to five years in prison.

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