03057nam 2200721 450 991046428150332120200520144314.00-252-09518-9(CKB)3710000000020559(EBL)3414299(SSID)ssj0001001057(PQKBManifestationID)11532022(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001001057(PQKBWorkID)10961546(PQKB)11721867(MiAaPQ)EBC3414299(StDuBDS)EDZ0001639676(OCoLC)861200067(MdBmJHUP)muse29690(Au-PeEL)EBL3414299(CaPaEBR)ebr10774474(OCoLC)923498042(EXLCZ)99371000000002055920130214h20132013 uy| 0engurcnu||||||||txtccrBlack revolutionary William Patterson and the globalization of the African American freedom struggle /Gerald HorneUrbana :University of Illinois Press,[2013]©20131 online resource (321 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-252-03792-8 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.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 1930's. This watershed biography shows how Patterson helped to advance African American equality by fostering and leveraging international support for the movement.Civil rights workersUnited StatesBiographyCommunistsUnited StatesBiographyAfrican American lawyersBiographyAfrican AmericansCivil rightsHistory20th centuryAfrican AmericansSegregationHistory20th centuryCivil rights movementsUnited StatesHistory20th centuryScottsboro Trial, Scottsboro, Ala., 1931Electronic books.Civil rights workersCommunistsAfrican American lawyersAfrican AmericansCivil rightsHistoryAfrican AmericansSegregationHistoryCivil rights movementsHistoryScottsboro Trial, Scottsboro, Ala., 1931.323.092BHorne Gerald850651MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910464281503321Black revolutionary1899367UNINA