Black Revolutionary: William Patterson and the Globalization of the African American Freedom Struggle

Contents

Contents Introduction 1 1 The Road to Revolution 15 2 Moscow Bound 29 3 The World Confronts Jim Crow 41 4 Scottsboro—and Collapse 55 5 Back in the USSR 67 6 Black Chicago 79 7 Turning Point 93 8 Prison Looms 109 9 “We Charge Genocide” 125 10 “I Am a Political Prisoner” 141 11 The CP’s “FBI Faction” Rises 157 12 Fighting Back 173 13 Patterson and Black Power 189 14 Death of a Revolutionary 207 Notes 219 Index 285 Illustrations follow page 92 Black Revolutionary ...