William Patterson and the globalization of the African American freedom struggle /
Gerald Horne.
Urbana :
University of Illinois Press,
2013.
1 online resource
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The road to revolution -- Moscow bound -- The world confronts Jim Crow -- Scottsboro, and collapse -- Back in the USSR -- Black Chicago -- Turning point -- Prison looms -- "We charge genocide" -- "I am a political prisoner" -- The CP's "FBI faction" rises -- Fighting back -- Patterson and Black power -- Death of a revolutionary.
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A leading African American Communist, lawyer William L. Patterson (1891-1980) was instrumental in laying the groundwork for the defeat of Jim Crow by virtue of his leadership of the Scottsboro campaign in the 1930s. This watershed biography shows how Patterson helped to advance African American equality by fostering and leveraging international support for the movement.
JSTOR
22573/ctt391r4k
Black revolutionary
9780252037924
Patterson, William L., (William Lorenzo),1890-1980.
Patterson, William L., (William Lorenzo),1890-1980.