Major Coxson

Biography

Major Benjamin Coxson (June 20, 1930 – June 8, 1973), also known as The Maj, was an American gangster from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 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.

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