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The man who cried genocide; an autobiography of William L. Patterson
The man who cried genocide an autobiography of William L Patterson Author:William L, Patterson This is an absorbing story, the record of a life-long, passionate struggle, thoroughly contemporary both in spirit and meaning. Son of a slave mother, Patterson as a young lawyer in Harlem soon found, together with his friend Paul Robeson, that the way out of the racist wilderness was neither with the Establishment nor Black separatism. He bec... more »ame an outstanding leader, founder of the Civil Rights Congress which led mass campaigns to save the victims of racial oppression. He initiated the Petition to the UN charging the U.S. government with genocide against the Black people. His was a rich and dramatic life--a Black man's road to revolution in our country and in our times.« less