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| 008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION |
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910614s1991 nyua 001 0aeng |
| 010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER |
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| LC control number |
90021426 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
0717806804 : |
| Terms of availability |
$6.95 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9780717806805 |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE |
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| Original cataloging agency |
DLC |
| Transcribing agency |
DLC |
| 043 ## - GEOGRAPHIC AREA CODE |
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| Geographic area code |
n-us--- |
| 050 00 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
HX 84 .D28 |
| Item number |
A3 1991 |
| 082 00 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
324.273/075/092 |
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B |
| Edition number |
20 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Davis, Benjamin J. |
| Fuller form of name |
(Benjamin Jefferson), |
| Dates associated with a name |
1903-1964. |
| Relator term |
author |
| 9 (RLIN) |
4849 |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Communist councilman from Harlem : |
| Remainder of title |
autobiographical notes written in a federal penitentiary / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. |
by Benjamin J. Davis. |
| 250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT |
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| Edition statement |
Second edition |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc. |
New York, NY : |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. |
International Publishers, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. |
c1991. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
viii, pages 7-237 : |
| Other physical details |
black and white photographs and illustrations ; |
| Dimensions |
21 cm. |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE |
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| General note |
Includes index and notes. |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE |
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| General note |
This text includes a list of illustrations, depicting Benjamin Davis throughout his personal and political life. |
| 505 00 - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
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| Title |
1990 introduction / |
| Statement of responsibility |
by Simon W. Gerson -- |
| 505 00 - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
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| Title |
Foreword / |
| Statement of responsibility |
by Henry Winston -- |
| 505 00 - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
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| Title |
Editor's note / |
| Statement of responsibility |
[Editor unamed] -- |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
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| Formatted contents note |
1, The world I was born into -- 2. A southern education -- 3. I became a lawyer -- 4. A Herndon case -- 5. After the Herndon trial -- 6. The impossible case -- 7. In the city council -- 8. Death of my father - 9. Civil rights in the postwar period -- 10. My friend Pete Cacchione dies -- 11. Trial and sentence -- 12. Life in the Terre Haute Penitentiary -- |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
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| Formatted contents note |
Appendix: 1. Of hypocrisy and the like -- 2. The instinction of being first -- 3. A trip to Mexico -- 4. A weekend in the far west -- 5. Anything can happen -- |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
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| Formatted contents note |
Addendum: Ben Davis speaks to the Harvard Law Forum. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc. |
"This book tells the story of a Southern black man who became a Communist in the struggle to save a black youth from electrocution in Georgia. The youth was Angelo Herndon, a young Communist who was seeking to unite black and white unemployed workers in the fight for jobs and bread in Atlanta during the height of the Great Depression in the 1930s. The author of the book was his lawyer. In later years the author was a frontline fighter against racism and political corruption in New York City. The first black Communist to be elected to legislative office in the United States, he was a city countil for six years, from 1944 to 1949....Benjamin J. Davis's story is an inspiration in the struggle for black liberation and socialism. This is why the Department of Justice kept his book in prison for ten years after the author himself was released. The writing was done under enormous difficulties in a tiny, poorly lit cell in the Jim-Crow section of the Federal Penitentiary at Terre Haute, Indiana, several months of it in solitary confiement." -- from the foreword. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Davis, Benjamin J. |
| Fuller form of name |
(Benjamin Jefferson), |
| Dates associated with a name |
1903-1964. |
| 9 (RLIN) |
4849 |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Communists |
| Geographic subdivision |
United States |
| General subdivision |
Biography. |
| 9 (RLIN) |
2128 |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Lawyers |
| Geographic subdivision |
United States |
| General subdivision |
Biography. |
| 9 (RLIN) |
2127 |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
African Americans |
| General subdivision |
Civil rights |
| 9 (RLIN) |
2174 |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
African Americans |
| General subdivision |
Social conditions |
| 9 (RLIN) |
4620 |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
African Americans |
| Geographic subdivision |
United States |
| General subdivision |
Legal status, laws, etc. |
| 9 (RLIN) |
4852 |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Racism |
| Geographic subdivision |
United States |
| General subdivision |
Political aspects |
| 9 (RLIN) |
4853 |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Anti-communist movements |
| General subdivision |
History |
| 9 (RLIN) |
4854 |
| 700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Gerson, Simon G. |
| Relator term |
author of introduction |
| 9 (RLIN) |
4851 |
| 700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Winston, Henry |
| Relator term |
author of foreword |
| 9 (RLIN) |
4312 |
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| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) |
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| Source of classification or shelving scheme |
Library of Congress Classification |
| Koha item type |
BOOKS |