Black Revolutionary: William Patterson and the Globalization of the African American Freedom Struggle
Gerald Horne
Abstract
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 equality by fostering and leveraging international support for the movement. The book 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 C ... More
Keywords: William L. Patterson, Jim Crow, Scottsboro campaign, African American equality, global activism, civil rights, Black Panther Party, racial justice
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2013 | Print ISBN-13: 9780252037924 |
| Published to Illinois Scholarship Online: April 2017 | DOI:10.5406/illinois/9780252037924.001.0001 |
