Horne, Gerald.

Black revolutionary : William Patterson and the globalization of the African American freedom struggle / Gerald Horne. - 1 online resource (318 pages)

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.

9780252095184 (e-book)


Patterson, William L. 1890-1980.


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--History--United States--20th century.
Scottsboro Trial, Scottsboro, Ala., 1931.


Electronic books.

E185.97.P32 / H67 2013

323.092 B