Major Benjamin Coxson (c. 1929 – June 8, 1973), also known as The Maj, was an American gangster from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.[1] Coxson was a flamboyant entrepreneur and civil rights activist who co-owned a Philadelphia nightclub with activist Stanley Branche, was close friends and neighbor to Muhammad Ali, and ran unsuccessfully for mayor of Camden, New Jersey in 1972. Coxson was a powerful drug dealer and power broker in Philadelphia who served as an intermediary between African-American and Italian-American organized crime groups.
Coxson was murdered at his home in Cherry Hill, New Jersey in 1973 which the police theorized that the Philadelphia Black Mafia killed him for his failure to broker a heroin deal with the New York Mafia.
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Major Benjamin Coxson (c. 1929 – June 8, 1973), also known as The Maj, was an American gangster from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Coxson was a flamboyant...
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Ronald Harvey, was also indicted for the Camden, New Jersey murder of MajorCoxson, a flamboyant black businessman and unsuccessful candidate for mayor...
year that involved Black Muslims. The Hanafi Murder and the murder of MajorCoxson were the other two. Police believed the killing was motivated by internal...
including co-ownership of a nightclub in Philadelphia with drug kingpin, MajorCoxson. In 1989, he was convicted and sentenced to 5 years in federal prison...
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and African-American after each term. Ott was supported by his friend Nat Coxson, president of another local union. Ott realized that Frank planned to run...
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boy is killed by a stray bullet through his bedroom window. Rawls meets Major Howard "Bunny" Colvin and Lieutenant Dennis Mello at the scene of the shooting...
sales and distribution services in the United States' fifth largest city to major international drug cartels, enabling these cartels to grow. The leader of...
formed in 1975 and released their first hit "To Be in Love" produced by Coxson; the B-side was the Emotions' US R&B song, "A Feeling Is a Feeling". They...
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