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 Crow by virtue of his leadership of the Scottsboro campaign in the 1930s. This watershed biography shows how Patterson helped to advance African American equa...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Horne, Gerald
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2013]
Subjects:
Patterson, William L. > (William Lorenzo), > 1890-1980.
Patterson, William L. > (William Lorenzo), > 1890-1980
1900-1999
Civil rights workers > United States > Biography.
Communists > United States > Biography.
African American lawyers > Biography.
African Americans > Civil rights > History > 20th century.
African Americans > Segregation > History > 20th century.
Civil rights movements > United States > History > 20th century.
Scottsboro Trial, Scottsboro, Ala., 1931.
Défenseurs des droits de l'homme > États-Unis > Biographies.
Communistes > États-Unis > Biographies.
Avocats noirs américains > Biographies.
Noirs américains > Droits > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Noirs américains > Ségrégation > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Mouvements des droits de l'homme > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Procès des garçons de Scottsboro, Scottsboro, Alab., 1931.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Political.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Civil Rights.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Human Rights.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Civil Rights.
African American lawyers
African Americans > Civil rights
African Americans > Segregation
Civil rights movements
Civil rights workers
Communists
Alabama > Scottsboro
United States
Biography
Biographies
History
Biographies.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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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