Crusader News Agency press releases 1935-1940

Miller, Loren B. (Loren Barker), 1906-1958

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Patterson, William L. (William Lorenzo), 1890-1980

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Noted political activist, lawyer, orator, organizer, writer, and Communist from San Franicsco, Calif.; also known as "Mr. Civil Rights." He also lived in New York from the mid-1950s to 1979. From the description of William Lorenzo Patterson papers, 1919-1979 (bulk, mid-1950s-1979). (Moorland-Spingarn Resource Center). WorldCat record id: 729372659 ...

Briggs, Cyril V. (Cyril Valentine), 1888-1966

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Crusader News Agency (New York, N.Y.)

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News service based in New York City serving blacks nationally. Editors included Cyril V. Briggs, Benjamin J. Davis, Loren Miller, and William L. Patterson. From the guide to the Crusader News Agency press releases, 1935-1940, (The New York Public Library. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division.) News service based in New York City serving blacks nationally. Editors included Cyril V. Briggs, Benja...

Davis, Benjamin J. (Benjamin Jefferson), 1903-1964

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A prominent black attorney, Davis graduated from Amherst College in 1925, graduated from Harvard Law School in 1929, and returned to Georgia to practice law. He gained notoriety for his defense of Angelo Herndon in 1933 who had been accused of insurrection. Davis became actively involved with the Communist Party and moved to New York City in 1935 to edit the Daily Worker. In 1948, he was arrested under the Smith Act and received a five-year sentence. He was arrested again in 1962 for his partici...