Black Revolutionary

Gerald Horne is the John and Rebecca Moores Professor of History at the University of Houston. His many books include The Rise and Fall of the Associated Negro Press: Claude Barnett's Pan-African News and the Jim Crow Paradox and Negro Comrades of the Crown: African Americans and the British Empire Fight the U.S. Before Emancipation. He is a recipient of the Ida B. Wells and Cheik Anta Diop Award for Outstanding Scholarship and Leadership in Africana Studies.

• CoverTitle PageContentsIntroduction1. The Road to Revolution2. Moscow Bound3. The World Confronts Jim Crow4. Scottsboro—and Collapse5. Back in the USSR6. Black Chicago7. Turning Point8. Prison Looms9. "We Charge Genocide"10. "I Am a Political Prisoner"11. The CP's "FBI Faction" Rises12. Fighting Back13. Patterson and Black Power14. Death of a RevolutionaryNotesIndex

"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, coeditor of Anticommunism and the African American Freedom Movement: "Another Side of the Story"Without reservation, Gerald Horne's biography of William L. Patterson should be required reading for anyone interested in the global context of the African American freedom struggle."--People's World "Horne deftly develops Patterson's story and shows that despite the fact that the 'red scare' pushed Patterson and other leftist figures, such as Paul Robeson and W.E.B. Du Bois, into the periphery, the U.S. Government did in fact, move to dismantle Jim Crow laws."--Register of the Kentucky Historical Society