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

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2013Description: 300 pages : 24 cm illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780252037924 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  • 9780252079436 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 323.092 B 23
LOC classification:
  • E 185.97.P32 H67 2013
Contents:
1 The road to revolution -- 2 Moscow bound -- 3 The world confronts Jim Crow -- 4 Scottsboro, and collapse -- 5 Back in the USSR -- 6 Black Chicago -- 7 Turning point -- 8 Prison looms -- 9 "We charge genocide" -- 10 "I am a political prisoner" -- 11 The CP's "FBI faction" rises -- 12 Fighting back -- 13 Patterson and Black power -- 14 Death of a revolutionary.
Summary: "Horne's engaging study brings to light William Patterson's leadership in the struggle against Jim Crow, underscoring the radical roots of the civil rights movement and the repression of the left in the Cold War era. A significant contribution to the history of the black freedom struggle." - Robbie Lieberman, quoted on back cover
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BOOKS BOOKS Niebyl-Proctor Marxist Library General Stacks E 185.97.P32 H67 2013 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Not For Loan NPML20080014

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1 The road to revolution -- 2 Moscow bound -- 3 The world confronts Jim Crow -- 4 Scottsboro, and collapse -- 5 Back in the USSR -- 6 Black Chicago -- 7 Turning point -- 8 Prison looms -- 9 "We charge genocide" -- 10 "I am a political prisoner" -- 11 The CP's "FBI faction" rises -- 12 Fighting back -- 13 Patterson and Black power -- 14 Death of a revolutionary.

"Horne's engaging study brings to light William Patterson's leadership in the struggle against Jim Crow, underscoring the radical roots of the civil rights movement and the repression of the left in the Cold War era. A significant contribution to the history of the black freedom struggle." - Robbie Lieberman, quoted on back cover

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