Word: harlem
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...crushing defeat for the Communists and their political stooge, the American Labor Party. The A.L.P. elected nobody. Congressman Vito Marcantonio, A.L.P. candidate for mayor who had boasted that he would win with more than 800,000 votes, got only 356,000, carrying only two districts in the East Harlem and Puerto Rican sections of the city...
...Communists' worst humiliation came in West Harlem, where hulking Ben Davis, one of the convicted Communist leaders, was defending his seat on the city council. It was the only elective office in the U.S. held by a Communist, and the party poured its resources into the fight. Comrades sent sound trucks crisscrossing the district, harangued street-corner meetings nightly, and Candidate Davis shouted himself out of voice...
...nightfall all Harlem had heard the news brayed by Communist loudspeakers: the eleven convicted bosses of the party were out on bail. Hundreds of Harlem's Negroes crowded into the streets to watch the triumphal homecoming of big, brassy Communist Ben Davis, their representative on the New York City Council...
...smiling and cocky. Federal Judge Harold R. Medina had denied the Commies bail, but the court of appeals had released them (their bail: $260,000). In the glare of flaming red torches, Ben Davis crowed to a crowd on Harlem's Lenox Avenue near 111th Street. "I am out on bail because you brought me out of jail," he boomed. "I am back just in time to get re-elected . . . and no S.O.B. Medina is going to stop me." Newly freed Comrades Robert Thompson and Henry Winston, who came along for the ride, tossed a little more verbal kerosene...
...little later, and several blocks to the north, Ben Davis beamed down on another cheering crowd from the balcony of Harlem's Theresa Hotel, with Paul Robeson at his side. Both looked mighty pleased with the way things were going...