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Author:

Horne, Gerald, author.

Title:

Black revolutionary : William Patterson and the globalization of the African American freedom struggle / Gerald Horne.

Publisher:

University of Illinois Press,

Copyright Date:

2013

Description:

300 pages ; 24 cm

Subject:

Patterson, William L.--(William Lorenzo),--1890-1980.
Civil rights workers--United States--Biography.
Communists--United States--Biography.
African American lawyers--Biography.
African Americans--History--History--20th century.
African Americans--History--History--20th century.
Civil rights movements--United States--History--20th century.
Scottsboro Trial, Scottsboro, Ala., 1931.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

ISBN:

0252079434 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780252079436 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0252037928 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780252037924 (hardcover : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)828143782

LCCN:

2013003510

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)