William Lorenzo Patterson (August 27, 1891 – March 5, 1980) was an African-American leader in the Communist Party USA and head of the International Labor Defense, a group that offered legal representation to communists, trade unionists, and African Americans in cases involving issues of political or racial persecution. (From Wikipedia)
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Patterson, William L. (William Lorenzo), 1890-1980: The Communist Position on the Negro Question (New York: New Century Publishers, 1947), also by William Z. Foster, Benjamin J. Davis, Eugene Dennis, James E. Jackson, James S. Allen, Abner W. Berry, Homer Chase, Alex Bittelman, Ray Hansborough, Max Weiss, and Edward E. Strong, contrib. by Nat Ross (PDF at flvc.org)- Patterson, William L. (William Lorenzo), 1890-1980: Negro Freedom: A Goal for All Americans (New York: New Currents Publishers, 1964), also by Henry Winston, Gus Hall, and Claude M. Lightfoot (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Patterson, William L. (William Lorenzo), 1890-1980, ed.: We Charge Genocide: The Historic Petition to the United Nations for Relief From a Crime of the United States Government Against the Negro People (third edition; New York: Civil Rights Congress, 1952), by Civil Rights Congress (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
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