WILLIAM PATTERSON PAGES


A SHORT BIOGRAPHY OF WILLIAM L. PATTERSON
From The ChickenBones Website

SPARTACUS EDUCATIONAL PAGE ON WILLIAM L. PATTERSON
With Excerpts From His 1971 Biography "The Man Who Cried Genocide"

 

   

WILLIAM PATTERSON—THE MAN WHO CRIED GENOCIDE

William L. Patterson

(1890-1980)

Noted African-American Leader and Organizer in the Communist Party USA

Author of the "We Charge Genocide" Petition Charging Systematic Genocide By the United States Against African-Americans, Presented to the United Nations Headquarters in New York City, December 17, 1951

First Cousin of Virginia (Jenny) Parker Reid