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

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


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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 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.   Through Patterson's story, Horne examines how the Cold War affected the freedom movement, with civil rights leadership sometimes disavowing African American leftists in exchange for concessions from the U.S. government. He also probes the complex and often contradictory relationship between the Communist Party and the African American community, including the impact of the FBI's infiltration of the Communist Party. Drawing from government and FBI documents, newspapers, periodicals, archival and manuscript collections, and personal papers, Horne documents Patterson's effectiveness at carrying the freedom struggle into the global arena and provides a fresh perspective on twentieth-century struggles for racial justice.


Table of Contents:
CoverTitle PageContentsIntroduction1. The Road to Revolution2. Moscow Bound3. The World Confronts Jim Crow4. Scottsboro—and Collapse5. Back in the USSR6. Black Chicago7. Turning Point8. Prison Looms9. "We Charge Genocide"10. "I Am a Political Prisoner"11. The CP's "FBI Faction" Rises12. Fighting Back13. Patterson and Black Power14. Death of a RevolutionaryNotesIndex

About the Author :
Gerald Horne is the John and Rebecca Moores Professor of History at the University of Houston. His many books include The Rise and Fall of the Associated Negro Press: Claude Barnett's Pan-African News and the Jim Crow Paradox and Negro Comrades of the Crown: African Americans and the British Empire Fight the U.S. Before Emancipation. He is a recipient of the Ida B. Wells and Cheik Anta Diop Award for Outstanding Scholarship and Leadership in Africana Studies.

Review :
"Horne's engaging study brings to light William Patterson's leadership in the struggle against Jim Crow, underscoring the radical roots of the civil rights movement and the repression of the left in the Cold War era. A significant contribution to the history of the black freedom struggle." --Robbie Lieberman, coeditor of Anticommunism and the African American Freedom Movement: "Another Side of the Story"


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780252079436
  • Publisher: University of Illinois Press
  • Publisher Imprint: University of Illinois Press
  • Height: 235 mm
  • No of Pages: 320
  • Sub Title: William Patterson and the Globalization of the African American Freedom Struggle
  • Width: 156 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0252079434
  • Publisher Date: 26 Sep 2013
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Spine Width: 25 mm
  • Weight: 513 gr


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