Benjamin J. Davis, Jr. is elected for the first of three times to the New York City Council

1943

Attorney and Communist Party newspaper editor Benjamin J. Davis, Jr. is elected for the first of three times to the New York City Council, representing Harlem. Meanwhile a number of other African Americans would run on the American Labor Party ticket, including Brooklyn-based community activist Ada B. Jackson, and soon W. E. B. DuBois, for U.S. Senate in New York.