Major Benjamin Coxson, also known as The Maj, (c. 1929 – June 8, 1973) was an American drug kingpin from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was a flamboyant entrepreneur, civil rights activist, inner city power broker and intermediary between Italian-American and African-American organized crime groups. He co-owned a Philadelphia nightclub with civil-rights activist Stanley Branche, was close friends and neighbor to Muhammad Ali and ran unsuccessfully for mayor of Camden, New Jersey in 1972.