In this Book
- Black Revolutionary: William Patterson and the Globalization of the African American Freedom Struggle
- Book
- 2013
- Published by: University of Illinois Press
summary
A leading African American Communist, lawyer William L. Patterson (1891–1980) was instrumental in laying the groundwork for the defeat of Jim Crowby virtue of his leadership of the Scottsboro campaign in the 1930s. In this watershed biography, historian Gerald Horne shows how Patterson helped to advance African American equality by fostering and leveraging international support for the movement. Horne highlights key moments in Patterson's global activism: his early education in the Soviet Union, his involvement with the Scottsboro trials and other high-profile civil rights cases of the 1930s to 1950s, his 1951 "We Charge Genocide" petition to the United Nations, and his later work with prisons and the Black Panther Party.
Table of Contents
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- Title Page
- pp. 4-5
- Introduction
- pp. 1-14
- 1. The Road to Revolution
- pp. 15-28
- 2. Moscow Bound
- pp. 29-40
- 3. The World Confronts Jim Crow
- pp. 41-54
- 4. Scottsboro—and Collapse
- pp. 55-66
- 5. Back in the USSR
- pp. 67-78
- 7. Turning Point
- pp. 93-108
- 8. Prison Looms
- pp. 109-124
- 9. "We Charge Genocide"
- pp. 125-140
- 10. "I Am a Political Prisoner"
- pp. 141-156
- 11. The CP's "FBI Faction" Rises
- pp. 157-172
- 12. Fighting Back
- pp. 173-188
- 13. Patterson and Black Power
- pp. 189-206
- 14. Death of a Revolutionary
- pp. 207-218
Additional Information
ISBN
9780252095184
Related ISBN(s)
9780252037924, 9780252079436
MARC Record
OCLC
861200067
Pages
320
Launched on MUSE
2013-11-04
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
2013